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	Charles Burns (cartoonist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an award-winning U.S. cartoonist and illustrator.
		Charles Burns' earliest prominent works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine and contributions to Art Spiegelman's comic magazine RAW.
		The Lambiek.net entry on Charles Burns - Illustrated mini-bio.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Burns_(cartoonist) (386 words)

	read yourself RAW - Profile: Charles Burns
		Charles Burns (1955-) portrays a disturbed world of dark horror and kinky science in his comic strips, the product, he admits, of over-exposure to American pop culture in his youth.
		Burns was an early and regular contributor to Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine and his provocative work has also appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine.
		Classic tales of doomed romance filtered through the twisted vision of Charles Burns, including Dog Boy, a red-blooded all American boy, who has the transplanted heart of a dog and is unable to control the urge to lick his girl friend's face or sniff her bottom.
	www.readyourselfraw.com /profiles/burns/profile_burns.htm (632 words)

	Charles Burns
		Charles Burns effortlessly spins yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama.
		Burns is the author of Black Hole, the acknowledged masterpiece of the form that Fantagraphics serialized through the 1990s.
		Charles Burns is the Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose work became legendary in Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine.
	www.fantagraphics.com /artist/burns/burns.html (1347 words)

	Graphic Novelist Charles Burns Talks About Compiling a Decade's Worth of His Work
		Since 1995, graphic artist Charles Burns has been releasing serial installments of a dark tale, set in Seattle in the 1970s: A sexually transmitted “bug” is passed from teenager to teenager.
		Burns follows the story of a few teenagers—some infected, some not (and some about to be)—as they move from the safe grounds of their suburban homes to the runaway refuge in the woods outside the city, founded by the most deformed.
		Burns, who in some circles is as famous for his illustrations and graphic art as for his comic books—he’s done covers for Time, The Stranger and Iggy Pop’s album Brick by Brick—himself grew up in Seattle in the 1970s and went to college with fellow comic greats Matt Groening and Lynda Barry.
	www.thebookstandard.com /bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001307334 (1970 words)

	Amazon.com: Black Hole: Books: Charles Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Burns, however, makes up for it with the ending to the other storyline, which is handled with even more eloquence and power than the rest of the story.
		Burns cut his teeth in early issues of RAW Magazine, and it shows; his work (this was, according to interviews and other reviews, a conscious decision on Burns' part) never changed during the decade it took him to write this book.
		Burns does what he does, and while it may look more crude than recent titles, everything has its reason, and by the time you've finished this, there will be no argument that Burns is at the top of his game here.
	www.amazon.com /Black-Hole-Charles-Burns/dp/037542380X (3312 words)

	Slick on the Draw
		Burns is famed for mordant, stylish morality plays that mix droll draughtsmanship with visceral surrealism.
		Burns’ lurid and compelling cautionary tales typically centre on any number of comic book clichés –sinister scientists, dogged detectives and teenage lust feature regularly.
		However, this familiar pulp iconography is given otherworldly life in Burns’ cartoon laboratory, and his oddly gripping narratives vividly evoke childhood’s intrigues, fantasies and fears.
	fp.ignatz.plus.com /slickdraw.htm (901 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 10/20/2005 \| Monstrous imagination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Burns, the nationally renowned Philadelphia illustrator and graphic novelist, took 10 years to produce his deep new opus.
		In his waking hours, Burns appears to be every bit the well-adjusted, 50-year-old father of two teenage girls that he is. He's married to the painter Susan Moore, who teaches at the Tyler School of Art and does all the lettering for his books.
		Burns is wary of another epic project, though "if the story demands it, the story demands it." He frequently travels to Paris these days to work with French animators on an original story for a seven-part feature-length movie called Fear of the Night.
	www.philly.com /mld/philly/entertainment/12948634.htm (1107 words)

	Paul Gravett: Article - Charles Burns
		These pre-occupations are the products of his childhood immersed in the schlockiest trash culture, from exploitation films on late nigh TV to monster mags, bubblegum cards and, of course, old horror, crime and love comics.
		As Burns explained, "He's a kid who's trying to make sense of this unfathomable reality, the horror of real life." It's a chilling, underplayed piece that sticks in the mind.
		In sublime contrast, Burns' passion for the photo-comics and movies starring Mexican super-wrestlers like El Santo in their crazy masks inspired another of his recurring characters.
	www.paulgravett.com /articles/002_burns/002_burns.htm (873 words)

	Charles Burns
		Burns’ unsavoury fairy tales typically centre on any number of comic book clichés (–sinister scientists, dogged detectives and teenage lust feature regularly-) before slowly warping into luridly compelling cautionary tales.
		Familiar pulp iconography is given new resonance in Burns’ cartoon laboratory, his oddly gripping narratives evoking childhood’s intrigues, fantasies and fears.
		For Burns enthusiasts and those with a taste for the artfully bizarre, a complete set is a must.
	fp.ignatz.plus.com /bigbaby.htm (241 words)

	Charles Burns - Los Angeles CityBeat
		David Rees never wanted to be a political cartoonist, but then 9/11 revealed the ambivalent relationship to violence at the heart of American culture
		Burns spent a decade on the 368-page book, releasing each chapter in comic book form along the way, completing a dramatic story arc as disturbing as it is genuinely moving.
		But Burns has been in Paris for the last month collaborating with seven other artists on a fl-&-white animated film, Peur(s) Du Noir (Afraid of the Dark), with a 15-minute section that he’s writing and directing himself.
	www.lacitybeat.com /article.php?id=3322&IssueNum=141 (1489 words)

	Charles Montgomery Burns - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
		Burns wins Springfield's Oldest Man Award, he asks the Simpsons to watch his mansion when he goes for a medical check-up at the Mayo Clinic.
		Burns as himself, the Bumblebee Man, and Tommy Tune (as Smithers), as they re-enacted some of the great moments in film (with a Burns twist).
		Burns checks the mega-store out on opening day only to find out that Arthur Fortune (owner of Fortune Mega-stores) is giving out money and winning the hearts of Springfielders.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Television/Charles-Montgomery-Burns-13380.html (1062 words)

	Eye Weekly - Tearing off a strip - 10.27.05
		Charles Burns presents his work with Chip Kidd Oct 29, 2pm.
		Not to be outdone, later that afternoon both Seth and Burns are joined by the inimitable (and notoriously taciturn) Chris Ware for a roundtable on the classic strips that shaped them.
		Like his co-panellists, Charles Burns says experiences with comic strips are among his earliest memories.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.27.05/features/strips.php (776 words)

	Amazon.ca: Skin Deep: Books: Charles Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Burns has a distinctive way with the pen and the comix themselves are also enjoyable.
		To me, Charles Burns might well be the first book I'd hand to someone, as Exhibit A of knowing where to put the ink.
		You need to know that Burns' work is very emotional, more than a little surreal, peopled by montrous humanoids, a little too familiar for my tastes; most people would say ugly, the rest, beautiful.
	www.amazon.ca /Skin-Deep-Charles-Burns/dp/1560973900 (665 words)

	Black Hole #12
		Black Hole #12 concludes cartoonist Charles Burns decade-long eerie tale of teen angst and a sexually transmitted plague.
		Burns unfurled the story gradually through issues of Black Hole with a small cast of troubled teens.
		It would be a disservice to Burns to discuss his comics in terms of story and art as if they were separate.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /smallpress/110785258730325.htm (458 words)

	COMICON.com: NEWS & PREVIEW CHARLES BURNS BLACK HOLE # 12
		BURNS: I was born in 1955, so I was the perfect age in the early sixties for "craze" in horror and monster movies and television shows.
		BURNS: I could have told the story of Black Hole without using the "teen plague" -- adolescence is horrific enough all on it's own, but I used the plague with all of it's horrible physical manifestations as a catalyst; a way of pushing the story and the characters into more extreme situations.
		BURNS: When I started trying to make comics in the early 80's there were not too many outlets for the kind of work I was interested in.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003138 (1639 words)

	Black Hole #12
		Charles Burns concludes his decade long graphic novel in BLACK HOLE #12.
		Still, that’s enough to realize that Burns has delineated youthful alienation via the comic book in such a way that it is palatable to the reader.
		As an illustrator, Burns has long used his lush fl and white brushwork to lovingly reveal a sour wellspring of dark and disquietude.
	comicbookbin.com /blackhole012.html (327 words)

	Strange Horizons Reviews: Black Hole by Charles Burns, reviewed by Justin Howe
		Burns is possibly the most accessible cartoonist to come out of the '80s art comic book / RAW scene.
		The monster half-glimpsed by night, the dark past alluded to but never fully revealed, the magic that might simply be a delusion of grief (but also might not), the mysterious onset of invisibility (twice), the endings left full of possibility.
		In the "post-Acceleration" universe of Charles Stross's latest novel, post-humans live in polities widely scattered through space that are physically constructed and linked with charmingly inventive SFnal ingenuity.
	www.strangehorizons.com /reviews/2006/06/black_hole_by_c.shtml (1208 words)

	Wizard Entertainment
		Posted June 12, 2006 6:15 PM Charles Burns took audience members through a timeline of his styles and subject matter Sunday in a two-man panel co-sponsored by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and Pantheon at MoCCAâs annual art festival in New York Cityâs Puck Building.
		Asked what projects he is currently involved with, Burns showed several examples of photography from a forthcoming book and spoke briefly about his recent trip to Paris to work on animated sequences in a feature length film.
		Though Burns did acknowledge observations from the crowd regarding intentionally overt sexual imagery contained in many of the gaping wounds depicting in Black Hole, as well as the repetition of certain poses and shapes.
	www.wizarduniverse.com /magazine/wizard/000512231.cfm (762 words)

	Broken Frontier \| The Portal for Quality Comics Coverage! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Burns’ massive opus is finally collected in hardcover, telling a unique tale about teenage life and the oddities that always come with it.
		For those unfamiliar with the name of Charles Burns, you’ve probably seen his stuff and never even known.
		What seems to be most impressive with Burns’ storytelling, is that he never seems to stray far from using a standard comic book grid.
	www.brokenfrontier.com /reviews/details.php?id=486 (825 words)

	Comic-Book Superstore: Fantagraphics
		The first in a series of collections of Charles Burns' early work has some beautifully drawn and hilarous stories.
		Graphic storyteller Charles Burns hits his artistic and narrative stride in the three immaculately rendered fl and white comics stories reprinted in this beautifully bound, library-quality volume from Fantagraphics.
		Burns is possibly the finest draftsman to come out the 80s comics underground, and integrates a Bauhaus design sense with a flair for Fifties EC horror.
	members.tripod.com /~endlessworld/fantagraphics/0-fantagraphics-02.html (415 words)

	The Varsity - Author, author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By placing the focus on young writers of fiction and the flourishing graphic novel genre, this year's IFOA (which took place from October 19 to 29 at various Harbourfront venues) was able to outsell 2004's event by a wide margin-and attract a slightly younger, hipper audience in the process.
		Alongside such youthful upstarts as American sentimentalist Jonathan Safran Foer, Britain's Zadie Smith, Nigerian writer Uzodinma Iweala, and Canadian cartoonist Seth were such literary old-guarders as John Irving, John Ralston Saul, and John Berendt, all reading from their work and musing on the craft of writing.
		Burns cited Chester Gould's Dick Tracy as an important milestone in his artistic development, while Seth described how the ceaseless monologues of Little Orphan Annie provided a major inspiration for the tone of his new graphic novel, Wimbledon Green.
	www.thevarsity.ca /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=7c8ef78f-29b6-4476-a759-443f143795e9 (604 words)

	TIME.com -- Andrew Arnold: A Comix Panel
		Six of America's top cartoonists converged in the belly of the Philadelphia Free Library last Saturday for a far-reaching discussion that touched on everything from their increasing use of new technology in their works, how comix may or may not fit into a museum, and whose works they currently admire.
		Charles Burns, whose novel "Black Hole" has been appearing in serialized format since 1995, spoke on the challenges of writing an ongoing series.
		Another unique aspect to long-term comix, Burns points out, is that your drawing style will change and the characters will look different from five years ago.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,214142,00.html (1237 words)

	The Comics Journal: Newswatch
		According to that report and the discussion it instigated, the cartoonist has stated through wife Jennifer that he plans on resuming his on-line comics career from inside prison once supplies can be procured and a system can be established for scanning his work in and coloring it.
		Burns says that most of the stuff he publishes now in Spain is in pamphlet or book form.
		Burns is an established favorite of the Harveys voters, although he has achieved little in the way of recognition from the summer's other major awards program.
	www.tcj.com /260/n_datebook.html (6936 words)

	Pantheon Graphic Novels
		Christmas time is here, and I can’t but get nostalgic for the comic strips of Charles M. Schulz.
		Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s.
		Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/graphicnovels/home.pperl (379 words)

	Orlando Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But as a diligent student of popular culture, Abram also can speak to the importance of cartoonist Charles Burns, who takes a stylized, middle-American landscape and pollutes it with unsettling, David Lynchian undertones.
		Guston's and Burns' mutual inclusion in "Bizarro World" demonstrates the breadth of the project: Its curators' loose criteria allow for works that share thematic structures, central forms ("lots of images of big eyeballs," Lotz warns) or even a real-world acquaintance between the artists.
		Gone are the days when legitimate artists had cornered the market on self-awareness; today, it's just as likely to be practiced by cartoonists whose strips allow them to define their place in the surrounding culture.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /artsculture/story.asp?id=1685 (822 words)

	Charles Burns
		[From Fantagraphics: Charles Burns is the Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose work became legendary in Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine.
		In addition to the work collected, SKIN DEEP features new covers and endpapers, as well as several pages of new illustrations reprinted from Burns' sketchbooks as well as covers and other illos from foreign editions of Burns' work that have never previously appeared in the U.S.]
		We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact.
	tplist.millarworld.net /charlesburns.html (791 words)

	Burns Did You Mean burns? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Burns was a town on the border of New South Walesa href="South_Australia_b9ad.html" title="South Australia">South Australia in Australia, now a part of Cockburn-Burns
		Burns supper, or a Burns Night, celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns
		Burns Protective is a private security company acquired by Securitas AB.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Burns.html (774 words)

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