Black Hole

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Originally published in 1995–2004. A comic.

Stark and powerfully drawn, this graphic novel is unlike anything you've ever read – a stunning tale of existential fear and loathing. Documenting a strange plague as it descends on Seattle's teenagers in the mid-1970s, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and those who are caught in it. This landmark series by Charles Burns – more than a decade in the making – is collected in its entirety in this striking, affordable softcover edition.

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Charles Burns

Charles Burns (born 1955) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director. ”At the juncture of fiction and memory, of cheap thrills and horror, lies the dark world of Charles Burns. His stories, which first attracted notice in the pages of RAW during the early 1980s, take comic book clichés – wiseacre kids,…

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