Black Hole

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.

If you've invested in Roland Emmerich's life-altering film 2012 starring John Cusack, you are fully aware that the world is totally going to end next year on December 21 (What's that? Something about a Mayan calendar? Sorry bro, never heard of it)...

Gift Guide: Kind of tempted to change our site's name to "Sense of Right Alliance" now, thanks to this proud assemblage of bootlegged toys. I also know what I want for Christmas now. Fundraising: If you'd like to see a Transmetropolitan art book from The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund featuring contributions for a metric ton of artists, you can head to the project's Kickstarter page... R

Long before he started illustrating his own edition of "The Book of Genesis," R. Crumb was drawing the hell out covers for "Zap Comix," and he wasn't alone. Underground comics of the 1960s and 1970s became the amino acids that gave way to modern literary tomes like "Maus" and "Black Hole...

I love it when comic books inspire real life action - assuming, of course, that real life action isn't dangerously akin to a Michael Bay movie. Something more creative would be nice, like cosplay, although that too can yield disastrous effects...

ComicsAlliance closes the day with an after-hours link dump. Sex: Nerve, a site that both in this instance and in general you should probably not visit from work, recently stopped by Emerald City Comic Con and had a chat with some of the pros, retailers, and fans -- including Danielle Corsetto of "Girls With Slingshots" and Cosmic Monkey Comics owner Andy Johnson -- to talk about... Rea

To be honest, I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw the AOL Radio Blog headline "3OH!3's Sean Foreman Reveals His Favorite Comics." Don't get me wrong, I'm an unabashed consumer of contemporary dance rock, and I've been to my share of 3OH!3 shows, I just figured Foreman might dig on comics more akin to his music's themes (dancing with chicks, boozing, making fresh beats)...