Guest Star - Charles Burns
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Charles Burns Charles Burns' Comics seem at first so stringent and cool, but they really are funny. They make fun of manias that anything can be done. They poke fun at peoples' fear of ghosts. Joking about deadly popular culture by cheerfully opposing it, he leaves no doubt whatsoever that something just isn't quite right here? 
"Find all the snakes and eggs in the picture!" When Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman announced their new Anthology "Little Lit", a contribution from Charles Burns was hard to imagine. Little Lit was meant to impress kids and the youth of today with high quality comics, which continually threaten to die out. Literature for the little ones: Not Charles Burns' comics! They're eerie, black and mysterious, rare and frightening, hardly suitable for kids. He delivers a double-whammy with the title "Spookyland", with it's countless number of snakes and eggs. Raw eggs, figures with busted-up oval bodies, and live snakes forming wriggly lines, all with a black and white panorama, which would remind you of an infernal slough. If only Humpty Dumpty didn't smile so adorably.
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"Find all the snakes and eggs in the picture!"
A challenge, which reminds us of Joe Orlando's "Weird Fantasy" Nr. 13 from 1952: "Don't Count Your Chickens", tells us a lot about Charles Burns' comics. How Little Tony finds an Easter egg one beautiful Easter Sunday, left by the Easter bunny and not by his parents, as it seems. His mother wonders who could have painted the lovely egg, and his father jokes that he'd kill himself because the neighbours painted them better than they did. The egg hatches like in a "Weird Fantasy" and an alien with telepathic powers appears. After convincing Tony to hide him, the alien then goes on requesting to be fed with meat. The shapeless extra terrestrial keeps on growing, finally devouring whole cows in one bite. Tony was already long gone on holidays (trying to gain weight), when the beastie alien was discovered and quite unpretentiously fried to death with a flamethrower. But then again, that wouldn't really be an "Entertaining Comic" if two more panels weren't to follow on to continue the story: The first shows sweet little children finding wonderfully decorated Easter eggs on the following Easter Sunday, the second and last, features the parents- "Perhaps it's the neighbours, Willie…! I wouldn't worry about it", says the comforting mother, and the Publishers add: "We would, Willie!" |
Biography Charles Burns was born in 1955 in Washington D.C. He studied (amongst others) with Matt Groening and Linda Barry in Seattle. Has lived in Philadelphia since 1979, and has published comics regularly since 1981 with RAW, Metal Hurlant plus various own publications. Bibliography The latest Fantagraphics' releases include three hardcover volumes titled: "Skin Deep", "Big Baby" and "El Bourbah". German editions are available through Reprodukt and Alpha Comics. Reprodukt will release the fourth edition of the "Black Hole" in conjunction with Fumetto 2002. Weitere Informationen » www.fantagraphics.com/artist/burns/burnsbio.html |
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