Charles Burns

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1988
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Books in Order: 27 titles

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  • Final Cut

    The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's obsessions, and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativityAs a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in thei...

  • Kommix

    From the beguiling imagination of Charles Burns: 80 comic books that never were. Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi com...

  • LILA

    The night was alive with stars that glistened like a thousand suns. Itwas like a dark canvas freckled with a million droplets of white paint.An endless ocean, an icy wasteland, a river of stars.In Italy, the Russo mansion was fast asleep. Well, almos...

  • Free S**t

    A collection of the Black Hole cartoonist’s secret, self-published sketchbooks and zines.

    Since 2000, master cartoonist Charles Burns has been self-publishing a secret, handmade sketchbook zine titled Free S**t, exclusively for friends and V...

  • Ham and Eggs with Baldo

    The mouse brothers, Ham and Eggs, are back in a new adventure! This time, they make an unusual new friend and learn that it’s okay for friends to be a little different.

    Be sure to catch the brothers in their other quests: Ham and Eggs in t...

  • Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Charles Burns' Black Hole

    This Fantagraphics Studio Edition showcases Burns’s original art for the book, featuring exact reproductions of over 150 of Burns’s original pages, at their actual size. While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in full c...

  • Last Look

    A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X'ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull -- now in one volume. The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the ...

  • Ham and Eggs in the Soup

  • Ham and Eggs in the Garden



  • Sugar Skull

    The long, strange trip that began in X'ed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending, heartbreaking end, but not before Doug is forced to deal with the lie he's been telling himself since the beginning. In this concluding volume, nightmar...

  • The Hive

    From the creator of Black Hole ("The best graphic novel of the year." -- Time; "Burns's masterwork." -- The New York Times Book Review), the second part of a new epic masterpiece of graphic horror in brilliant, vivid color. Much has happened sin...

  • X'ed Out

    From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
     
    Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room,...

  • Skin Deep

    Charles Burns is the creator of the landmark horror graphic novel Black Hole, currently in production as a major motion picture directed by David Fincher. Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a series of three volumes collecti...

  • Black Hole

    Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards

    The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in...

  • Black Hole #10

    by Charles Burns
    Ten years in the making, Charles Burns' magnum opus careens towards its inevitably apocalyptic conclusion, with only two issues remaining! This tenth issue is printed with the bleakest and blackest of...

  • Black Hole #9

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    A shadowy life spews forth from Harvey Award winning Charles Burns' dark pen once again, filling the pa...

  • Black Hole #8

  • Black Hole #7

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  • Big Baby

    "From the creator of the 2005 hit graphic novel Black Hole comes this new softcover edition of his other masterpiece of modern horror. Big Baby is a particularly impressionable young boy named Tony Delmonte,...



  • Black Hole #2

  • Black Hole #6

  • Facetasm : A Creepy Mix & Match Book of Cross Face Mutations!

  • Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance

    One of the decade's premiere illustrators presents three "Tales of Doomed Romance": Burn Again, a long strange tale of a hypnotic televangelist and his messianic cult; Marriage Made in Hell; and Dog Boy, the rollicking story of a young boy saved by t...

  • Curse of the Molemen: Big Baby

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  • Hard-Boiled Defective Stories

  • Ham and Eggs Scrambled

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    The adventures of Ham and Eggs continue! In this installment, the two mouse brothers learn the value of a good friend in a time of trouble. From the author of "Ham and Eggs in the Garden," "Ham and Eggs in the Soup" and "Ham ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Burns has published 27 books.

Charles Burns does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Final Cut, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Charles Burns, Hard-Boiled Defective Stories, was published in March 1988.

No. Charles Burns does not write books in series.
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