Kommix

Gorgeously designed, with an obvious sense of love for the genre fiction standards it is re-imagining, Kommix is a book that will invite constant revisitation.– “Broken Frontier”Kommix presents a gorgeous, fictional collection of the absurd.– “AIPT Comics”In Kommix, [Burns] compiles dreamlike scenes, stylized to look like the covers of love comics from the nineteen-fifties and sixties, cheap pulp and porno zines, or exoticized foreign-looking publications. A punk Tintin, together with his black cat, discovers a large and fleshy appendage in the woods; a couple’s intimate moment is disrupted by a perky intruder; and romantic teen-age scenes of passion and jealousy play out with a cast of all-male youngsters.– “The New Yorker”One of the books that first made me fall in love with comics was Burns’s 2005 dystopian creep-fest Black Hole and I have been devoted to his high-contrast weirdness ever since.–Rachel Cooke “The Guardian”

Charles Burns is the internationally renowned creator of the graphic novels Black Hole and Last Look. Burns grew up in Seattle, rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly’s RAW magazine, and is one of the most distinctive and original cartoonists of his generation. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.