Charles Burns

Celebrating The Bizarre & Beautiful Work Of Charles Burns
Celebrating The Bizarre & Beautiful Work Of Charles Burns
Celebrating The Bizarre & Beautiful Work Of Charles Burns
Charles Burns excels at making people feel uncomfortable. Born September 27, 1955, Burns has been making incredible comics since his debut in the early 1980s. Simultaneously, he's cultivated a career as one of the most coveted and respected illustrators in the magazine industry. Today we celebrate one of the most unique voices in comics.
Best Art Ever (This Week) – 06.07.13
Best Art Ever (This Week) – 06.07.13
Best Art Ever (This Week) – 06.07.13
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we've created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it's new, some of it's old, some of it's created by working professionals, some of it's created by future stars, some of it's created by talented fans, and some of it's endearingly silly. All of it's awesome.
Bending the Light: The Otherworldly Masterwork of X’ed Out [Review]
Bending the Light: The Otherworldly Masterwork of X’ed Out [Review]
Bending the Light: The Otherworldly Masterwork of X’ed Out [Review]
I read X'ed Out by Charles Burns at a laundromat in a torn down section of Los Angeles. Have you ever been in one of these places? Mildew in the corners of the particleboard ceiling, broken greenish lightbulbs that pop and fizz and sputter out with the sweltering condensation of the dryers, identical velvet-canvas portraits of the same hideous clown-painted gangbanger at the end of every aisle...