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Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards"Smoldering brilliant... What Burns does so memorably here is blend the erotic and the frightening to create a black hole the reader will want to visit again and again."--The Boston Globe"The best graphic novel of the year... One of the most stunning graphic novels yet published."--Time"Black Hole is Burns's masterwork."--The New York Times Book Review"Surreal and unnerving... A remarkable work."--Chicago Sun-Times
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About the Author
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, in an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the set for Mark Morris’s delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM. He’s 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. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.
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Product details
Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; Reprint edition (January 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375714723
ISBN-13: 978-0375714726
Product Dimensions:
6.6 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
201 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#28,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I read Black Hole for my graphic novel class. I had never heard of, and had no idea what to expect. Although it doesn't have page numbers, Goodreads says it is 352 pages long. It felt a lot shorter than that, as it moved extremely quickly. I finished it in two sittings. However, the content makes it seem longer -- this was a strange book.Black HoleI honestly got confused with this plot, which isn't something I can say about a lot of novels. This may have been, in part, because of the fact that two male characters (and even the main female character) all looked alike -- they all had black shoulder length hair with short bangs. I plan to go back through, and reread the novel again knowing that the two guys, Keith and Rob, are not the same person. Now this may have been a hard mistake to make for some, but it made things a little confusing at first for me.I believe the basic plot takes place in the 70s and is structured around Rob and Chris, who have a rocky start to a relationship, and their various friends. The other possible main character is Keith, who I figured out was a separate person from Rob about halfway in... All these people are somehow dealing with a type of 'bug' or disease that is being spread through sexual contact/saliva that physically disfigures people in strange ways (facial restructuring, growing new body parts -- Rob's second mouth, for example). This was really odd, and not well explained, but interesting all the same. This disease is incurable, and makes people social outcasts. Many who have it resort to living in the woods, stealing food to get by, and avoiding normal society.One thing that really struck me about this book was, unsurprisingly, the artwork. Partially because the characters do drugs quite a bit, and also partially due to the weirdness of their world, the artwork was beautiful and mind-opening, and just absolutely wonderful in every way. I know it sounds like I'm fawning over the art -- probably because I am. One character does artwork throughout the book, and you get to see some of it, and even that is wonderful in a weird, disturbing way. I spent much longer taking in the details of the strange layout (when Rob is tripping on LSD) than looking at the words that just described what he was seeing. The panels start to get wavy, start to weave into one another, and start to change shape when things get trippy -- I feel this was a fantastic way to help the reader know what the characters were experiencing.If you don't have an open mind about drugs, sex, and horrible teenage actions, I would warn you away from this book. However, if you are open to that sort of thing, I would highly recommend it. Even the 'sexual' drawings, shoot, even the art from the pornographic magazines, didn't feel out of place or negative. It all fit in so well with the content of the story, that I think it really worked. The only downside (if I can even call it that) is the confusing plot. I think on a second read, everything will clear up a bit. Though I know some of it won't -- that's part of the mystery of the book; the full spreads of black pages with a few white, spiraling objects makes you question the story, the characters, and their motives. Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and definitely plan to reread it soon.
This is a very clever idea for a book: a new STD appears among a group of teenagers. This particular STD causes the body to be "disfigured" in unpredictable and grotesque ways. A kid might grow a tail, or an extra mouth, or webbed fingers... It quickly makes these young people outcasts, who have to try to figure out what to do with themselves. Some try to hide their differences and fit in while others take to the woods and live on their own.The artwork here is also very good. The story is told in black and white but much heavier on the black than the white. Some pages seem almost completely awash in ink with only pinpricks and slashes of white showing through to create the images. It is beautiful and eerie, completely appropriate to the story.If there is a weakness here it is that the story doesn't quite live up to the set-up and the art. The plot builds only very gradually and the pay-off isn't really worth the time invested in getting to it. It felt like Mr. Burns got a bit weary, and ended things quickly with a cliché-ridden bow. Still, for the most part, there's a lot to enjoy.
Having lived in Seattle for six years while I was in college, the haunts that the characters inhabit seem especially vivid to me. The author absolutely nails the feeling of the region which gives me goosebumps upon reading. The reader can feel the setting getting in to their bones, inhabiting their moods. It is not a stretch to imagine the outsiders (myself included at the time) who hung out at Ravenna park to be infected with some sort of disease. One of the beauties of this story is how the author expands on the troubles of adolescence. The alienation is cast more clearly when it is found out that many of the teenagers have diseases that turn their bodies in to disgusting writhing masses. Youthful sexual encounters are tainted when naked bodies expose the ugliness within. While not much more than a collection of scenes, this book captures the feeling of youth as well as any other author. Adolescence is a time when people feel awkward about who they are. Not yet intelligent enough or self-aware to be confident in who they are, they float in some sort of netherworld between a childish innocence and a purpose-driven adulthood. Some teenagers, often the popular ones, through ignorance innocently pretend to have their act together, to know what is going on. But they too can catch the disease of social awkwardness and self-doubt as the characters in the book catch a much more horrid disease. The outcasts who are infected with this awkward disease yearn to be normal. They construct collages of normal bodies in hopes of understanding their sexuality. The normal kids come upon these collages and are horrified for the window in to self-doubt that is opening to them. This is the feeling of adolescence. No other book I've read does as good a job of capturing this fascinating period.
I first remember reading Charles Burns in RAW magazine back in the 1980s, and his work still has the ability to unsettle even the most jaded reader. Whether it is the stark black and white drawings (which have the feel of an alien woodcut) or the topics (which take the alienation of teenagers and misfits seriously, without a wink or a nudge) it is hard to read Burns without being awed and horrified in equal measure. Black Hole is Burns' magnum opus, and it is worth every chilling panel - a virus spread by sexual contact is ravaging a group of teenagers in the 1970s, but there is so much more to this book than the superficial plot. One day, Burns may be thought of in the same category as Roberto Bolano and other literary stars with a passion for the disturbing. One can only hope so, at least - highly recommended.
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