Charles Burns (cartoonist)
Charles Burns ( born September 27, 1955 in Washington, DC) is an American artist, cartoonist and author. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 4.1 Original U.S. spending
- 4.2 German -language publications
Career
The Early Years
After Burns until 1977, the Fine Art Class attended at the University of Washington, he studied from 1977 to 1979 Painting and Sculpture at the Graduate School in Davis, California. Among his first works include cover designs for the Sub Pop fanzine (from the same record label was created ).
In 1981, he met Art Spiegelman know who could inspire him for the medium of comics. By 1991 Burns created posts to Spiegelman's avant-garde comics magazine RAW, including Dog Boy and Big Baby. In 1983, he began the series El Borbah for the magazine Heavy Metal.
Mid-1980s, Burns spent about two years in Italy. During this time he was now known in Europe; various magazines, including the German heavy metal, printed from his stories.
Black Hole
1993 Burns began work on his magnum opus, Black Hole, one supported by some subtle, sometimes explicit horror story about a virus that in Seattle in the 1970s affects the students in a high school and leads to bizarre physical deformities.
In 1995, the first edition was published in the American publishing house Kitchen Sink Press, from band 5 was Black Hole of Fanta Graphic Books published. After the appearance of the twelfth and last volume of the series in 2004, he spent one year later at Pantheon Books, a 368 -page hardcover edition that includes all twelve volumes in a slightly modified version.
Non- comic work
Apart from his published in comic form works designed Burns including the cover of the Iggy Pop album " Brick by Brick", promotional ads for Altoids and Levi's, and designs for the mid-1990s by the Coca Cola Company in the United States the market brought drinks brand OK soda.
In addition, he had Publications and cover illustrations in the magazines TIME, Rolling Stone, Esquire and The New Yorker. He designed the cover of each issue of the magazine The Believer, founded in 2003 and is guided there as the official cover designer.
Style
In Burns ' drawing style using influences and borrowings from the American horror comics of the early 1950s (before the introduction of the Comics Code in the McCarthy era ), but also a cool aesthetic as they are found in the advertising and media 1980s design application. Burns ' drawings are largely clear contoured and unfussy, the horror is dominated by the black black and white drawing style, the play of light and shadow and the use of hatching a way into his stories.
For his achievements as Tuscher (English Inker ) Burns seven times won the Harvey Award 1998-2006.
Trivia
Charles Burns visited in the early 1970s, the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. There, he met the Simpsons creator Matt Groening and Lynda Barry the cartoonist, with whom he worked at the local school newspaper.
Matt Groening, the numerous characters he designed the television series The Simpsons named after family members and friends, has been inspired by his former classmate Charles Burns apparently when choosing a name the figure of Charles Montgomery Burns.
The early 1990s, MTV adapted the Dog Boy stories for the television series Liquid Television in the form of a real series, for Burns also wrote the screenplay.
Bibliography
Note: Black Hole is released in the U.S. in 12 volumes, while in Germany in 6 volumes, a German edition has expanded the scope of two volumes of the U.S. edition. The German editions of Big Baby and El Borbah have appeared earlier than the U.S. editions, since the two plants in the U.S., respectively originally serialized in the magazine RAW. Heavy Metal has been published.