The clarity and focus of its black-and-white artwork and the depths of its chiaroscuros made for a book of great beauty.įor the past four years, Burns has been engaged on a new trilogy, the first volume of which, X’ed Out, came out in 2010, followed by The Hive in 2012 and, now, the concluding volume, Sugar Skull. A twisted story of body dysmorphia and weird sex set in suburban Seattle in the 1970s, Black Hole played knowingly and thrillingly with genres, including the horror of the Evil Dead series and The Blair Witch Project, while achieving the wider resonance of a symbolic Aids tale.
Jonathan Cape, 56pp, £12.99 80pp, £12.99 80pp, £12.99Ĭharles Burns’s graphic novel Black Hole (2005) brought him to the attention of a wide, reverent readership.
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