Black Hole (Pantheon Graphic Library) Black Hole (Pantheon Graphic Library): Charles Burns: 9780375423802: : Books Skip to main content. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morriss delightful restaging of The Nutcracker. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.Īs hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Holetranscends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird. A handful of comics have made it into the canon of respectable modern literature, but none of them are as jarring as Charles Burns’s Black Hole. Black Hole (Pantheon Graphic Library) Charles Burns on. There’s no turning back.Īs we inhabit the heads of several key characters - some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it - what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. The disease is manifested in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you’ve got it, that’s it. Black Hole 2010 11m IMDb RATING 6.0 /10 125 YOUR RATING Rate Short Horror The story deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted disease which causes grotesque mutations in teenagers. The story deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted disease that causes grotesque mutations in teenagers. It was released in collected form in 2005 by Pantheon Books. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. Black Hole is a twelve-issue comic book limited series written and illustrated by Charles Burns and published first by Kitchen Sink Press, then Fantagraphics. An edition of Black Hole (2005) Black Hole by Charles Burns 3. Hardback with dust jacket, 368 pages, English, 24,4 x 17,5 x 4,5 cm

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