Illustration īurns' high-profile illustrations include album cover work for the Iggy Pop album Brick by Brick. The series was collected into a single volume, Last Look, published by Pantheon in 2016. Sugar Skull, the final installment in the trilogy, was released Fall of 2014. Part two of the new trilogy, The Hive, was released in October 2012. In October 2010, Burns released the first part of a new series, X'ed Out. In 2007 Burns contributed material for the French made animated horror anthology Fear(s) of the Dark. Black Hole was featured prominently in the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The series was collected into a single volume in 2005. It was later stated that Burns did not feel there was enough material for a complete fourth volume.) įrom 1993 to 2004, he serialized the 12 chapters of his Harvey Award-winning graphic novel Black Hole (12 issues from Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics Books). (A fourth and last volume, Bad Vibes, has yet to be published, which would have the Library collecting the entirety of his pre- Black Hole comics work. Most of Burns' short stories, published in various supports over the decades, were later collected in the three volumes of the 'Charles Burns' Library' (hardcovers from Fantagraphics Books): El Borbah (1999), Big Baby (2000), and Skin Deep (2001). In 1999, he showed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1994, he was awarded a Pew Fellowships in the Arts. Raw Books also published two books of Burns as RAW One-Shots: Big Baby and Hard-Boiled Defective Stories.

In 1982, Burns did a die-cut cover for RAW #4.

His graphic novel Black Hole won the Harvey Award.Ĭharles Burns' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. His early work was published in a Sub Pop fanzine, and he achieved prominence in the early issues of RAW. Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955) is an American cartoonist and illustrator.

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