Enter the eerie world of Charles Burns, master of uncanny storytelling and surreal visuals. In Caprice, Burns offers around thirty fictional comic book covers, steeped in the aesthetic of 1950s pulp and filtered through his unique graphic vision.
Each image seems to be the first panel of an unwritten story—inviting speculation, imagination, and dread. Familiar themes return: adolescence, mutation, sexuality, dreams, and darkness. This is not just a collection of pictures, but a dense narrative field in visual form.
A must-have for fans of Burns’s universe and lovers of unsettling beauty.
Charles Burns (b. 1955) is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for Black Hole, X’ed Out, and Big Baby. His ink-heavy, psychologically charged works explore themes of identity, sexuality, transformation, and suburban horror.
