X'ed Out

Description

Meet Doug, aspiring young artist. He's having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat Inky. Who died years ago. But that's no longer the case, as he slinks through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow. So he does. Now there's no turning back. What the heck is going on? To say much more would spoil the creepy, Burnsian fun, especially since - unlike Black Hole - X'ed Out has not been previously serialised anywhere and will have readers guessing at every unnervingly meticulous panel. Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Herge and William Burroughs, X'ed Out is an engrossing new comic book fever-dream, from a true master of the form at the height of his powers.

Author description

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 form there, in an extraordinary range of comics and projects, form Iggy Pop Album covers to the latest ad from Altoids.In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's restaging of The Nutcraker(renamed The Hard Nut) at the Brooklyn Academy of music. He illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. Burn's most recent book Black Hole, received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burn's lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.