Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director.
Burns is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two young daughters Ava and Rae-Rae.
His father was an oceanographer for the government. The family moved frequently, living in Colorado, Maryland and Missouri before settling in Seattle when Burns...
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Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director.
Burns is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two young daughters Ava and Rae-Rae.
His father was an oceanographer for the government. The family moved frequently, living in Colorado, Maryland and Missouri before settling in Seattle when Burns was in fifth grade.
Charles Burns' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. In 1982, Burns did a die-cut cover for RAW #4. Raw Books also published two books of Burns as 'RAW One-Shot': Big Baby and Hard-Boiled Defective Stories.
Most of Burns' short stories, published in various supports over the decades, were later collected in the...
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