X'ed out - Softcover

Burns, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224090410 ISBN 13: 9780224090414

Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE, 2010

Synopsis

Doug n'est pas en forme. Tous les médicaments du monde ne feront pas taire les images qui hantent ses rêves fiévreux. Foetus de cochon, lames de rasoir, chats noirs, plaies sanglantes ... et oeufs. N'oublions pas les oeufs. Format : 232 x 302 mm, 56 pages couleur, couverture cartonnée.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Burns (Author, Illustrator) Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's delightful restaging of The Nutcracker. He's illustrated covers for Time, the New Yorker and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the official cover artist for The Believer magazine. Black Hole received Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Fusing the unsettling kitsch of EC horror comics, the storytelling sensibility of Euro-classics like Tintin, and the astute observations about young adults that made Black Hole so engrossing, Burns has turned out a haunting first chapter in what promises to be a spellbinder. The opening pages flip among the various realities of Doug, a young man recovering from a head injury of some kind with only a box of pills and some strawberry Pop-Tarts to speed his recovery. Flashbacks and dreams switch among various scenes: Doug and his hypocrite father; a wild party gone awry when Doug's crush object's crazy (but unseen) boyfriend goes on a rampage; and, most mysteriously, another world--found behind a hole in a brick wall--where dead cats live, worms weep, and a giant hive rules a grim city of deformed creatures. Burns's control of the story is masterful--the recurring imagery make it unclear just which is the reality and which is the dream. His sharply delineated art captures a grotesque yet sympathetic view of kids thrust far beyond a world that they can control or even understand. The only disappointment about X'ed Out is its brevity--the first of several installments, it will leave you begging for the rest of the story.
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Edition details

• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224090410
• ISBN 13: 9780224090414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 77