Kommix [Hardcover]

From the beguiling imagination of Charles Burns: 80 comic books that never were. ?Charles Burnss comics are fluid, smooth and as solidly built as a vintage TV set, but they shudder with the chill of the uncanny. One of the books that first made me fall in love with comics was Burnss 2005 dystopian creep-fest A psychedelic maze of sci-fi, horror, and romance, plunging into themes of adolescence, transformation, and sex. Gorgeously designed, with an obvious sense of love for the genre fiction standards it is re-imagining,? Burnss stark chiaroscuro and thick, wood-block-esque line work [are] staples of the alternative-comics scene. Fascinating and thought-provoking nightmare fuel. In For lovers of vintage pop culture, the covers of imaginary comic books by a contemporary master. The stand-alone cover is an ideal medium for Burns: a big, bold image to serve as an armature for his oblique obsessions. Charles Burns stories and artwork seamlessly unite horror, surrealism, and disquieting absurdism, depicted in the style of dead-pan realism of true story / romance comic books.