nitpicket.com (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Happy Tuesday, thugs. I've been watching so many Oscar flicks lately that I haven't been reading as many comics as I normally do. However, I've been reading Black Hole by Charles Burns and it's absolutely one of the best graphic novels I've read in a long time. HIs artwork is breathtaking and the story is both creepy and thought provoking. It's the greatest horror film that will never...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Q&A: Meet The Real Mr. Burns [As Told To JONATHAN VALANIA] 1. Though born and bred in the high rainyland of the Pacific Northwest, Charles Burns has resided in Philadelphia — Northern Liberties, to be exact — for the past 21 years. “Well, the view out my studio window has changed a bit,” he says, when asked [...]
lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
... magazine has commissioned as covers from various artists, including Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Roz Chast, Robert Crumb, Anita Kunz, Carter Goodrich and others; and an article about the history of the character by Louis Menand, Mystery Man: The many faces of Eustace Tilley . I’ll write another article when the contest results are posted in February and we can all see...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
“The Hard Nut,” while still a period work (it’s based in the 1960s and ’70s, with a design inspired by the comic-book artist Charles Burns), instead plunges into that not-so-happy chaos that characterizes holiday memories for many people. And there is a particular, sharper sort of comfort in seeing something closer to your reality reflected onstage — or for this competition’s purposes,...
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
We love that Philadelphia can call Charles Burns its own.
Culture Parody Center (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... our part, we were enthusiastic about seeing the work of awesome graphical designers like Blutch, Charles Burns or Lorenzo Mattotti contrasting the omnipresent hyper-realism from the American side of the waters. And we weren’t disappointed, readers - the animations look gorgeous, exploiting their black and white contrasts in visually arresting ways. Especially with Charles Burns...
