Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character Dog Boy (a red-blooded all-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog, featured in shorts on MTV's cult classic Liquid Television show). The book also collects 'Burn Again,' and 'A Marriage Made in Hell.' These tales of doomed romance set a tone for the rest of Skin Deep.

Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks captures the breathtaking landscape and wildlife of one of America’s most renowned regions. More than 275 photographs—from some of the country's best nature photographers—recreate the adventure and grandeur of this area that combines the world's greatest collection of geothermal features, some of the West's most spectacular mountains and its best wildlife viewing areas. This unique large-format book offers guided tours—in words and pictures—of Yellowstone and Grand Teton, with thirty-six pages of foldouts, each more than three feet wide, designed to illustrate the wide-open expanse of these national park gems. Yellowstone was set aside as America's first national park in 1872. Since then, interest in the park has grown dramatically and today, more than 3 million people visit the two parks annually. Grand Teton National Park, home of the majestic mountain range, was preserved as a national park in 1929. This book offers stunning photographs of every corner of the 2.2 million acres that make up these parks, including such treasures as Lake Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, and the world's most famous geyser, Old Faithful, as well as rainbow-colored geyser basins of the north Mammoth country, and herds of buffalo and elk on the wide plains of the Lamar Valley. Sit back and behold the beauty of the Grand Tetons at sunset, the breathtaking vistas over the Snake River, or the refreshing waterfalls off the Bechler River trail. Whether it’s boating on Jackson Lake or a hike around Grand Prismatic Spring that you desire, Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks takes you deep into the parks' many gorgeous landscapes in every season of the year.

Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards

The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.

And then the murders start.

As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn't exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.

To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…

From the creator of the 2005 hit graphic novel Black Hole comes this new softcover edition of his other masterpiece of modern horror. Big Babyis a particularly impressionable young boy named Tony Delmonte, wholives in a seemingly typical American suburb until he sneaks out of hisroom one night and becomes entangled in a horrific plot involvingsummer camp murders and backyard burials. Burns' clinical precision asan artist adds a sinister chill to his droll sense of humor, and hisaffection for 20th-century pulp fiction permeates throughout, creatinga brilliant narrative that perfectly captures the unease and fear ofadolescence.

Charles Burns ha iniziato la lavorazione di 'Black Hole' nel 1994, proseguendo poi per dieci anni. Disegnato in un bianco e nero fortemente contrastato, la Coconino ripropone questo moderno classico in una nuova edizione: il libro racconta di un'epidemia che si propaga tra gli adolescenti, trasmettendosi per via sessuale (metafora scoperta dell'Aids) e causando diverse mutazioni fisiche. La gravita del male, l'esclusione crescente subita dalle vittime si manifestano attraverso un'atmosfera di palpabile frenesia sessuale. Collegando horror e sessualità, Burns porta alle estreme conseguenze le difficoltà legate alla scoperta del corpo altrui, in un percorso che rimanda a quelli del regista canadese David Cronenberg.

Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists.

El Borbah features five science-fiction and true-detective episodes: In 'Robot Love,' rebellious kids in nightclubs replace their 'parts' with mechanical substitutes as part of a new fad, only to find that their parents have been automating themselves all along; in 'Love in Vein' a mad visionary sperm donor plans a master race and turns 'his' kids against their parents; 'Bone Voyage' details the exploits of a cult called the Brotherhood of the Bone, a kind of cross between the Masons and the Mansons. The fantastic plots take up the weird fears of a scientific society, but the action is pure pulp. Charles Burns effortlessly spins yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama. And through it all crashes El Borbah, trying to make an honest buck from dishonest people.

Burns is the author of Black Hole, the acknowledged masterpiece of the form that Fantagraphics serialized through the 1990s and will be collected into a massive graphic novel in 2005 by Pantheon Books. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a 'sci-fi-noir' aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.

And then the murders start.

As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn't exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.

To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…

Graphic novel that explores the American culture of the 1970s, when it wasn't cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still weird.

Tra horror e cronaca semiautobiografica adolescenziale, l'opera si distingue per le atmosfere misteriose, al tempo stesso fascinose e terrificanti, rese attraverso un bianco e nero fortemente contrastato. La casa di Chris diventa sempre più un luogo di rifugio per tutti gli sbandati che non sanno come affrontare il morbo mutante che li ha colpiti; nel frattempo, si scopre l'identità della misteriosa figura che aveva cominciato a uccidere i giovani infetti e il futuro sembra sempre più senza speranza... La gravità del male, l'esclusione crescente subìta dalle vittime si manifestano attraverso un'atmosfera di palpabile frenesia sessuale.

L'americano Charles Burns ha iniziato la lavorazione di Black Hole nel 1994, proseguendo poi per vari anni. Se appare difficile catalogare un'opera così originale (cronaca semiautobiografica adolescenziale, narrazione horror...), è indiscussa invece la conferma del particolare talento di Burns nel descrivere atmosfere misteriose che divengono fascinose e terrificanti nello stesso tempo.

L'americano Charles Burns ha iniziato la lavorazione di Black Hole nel 1994, proseguendo poi per vari anni. Se appare difficile catalogare un'opera così originale (cronaca semiautobiografica adolescenziale, narrazione horror...), è indiscussa invece la conferma del particolare talento di Burns nel descrivere atmosfere misteriose che divengono fascinose e terrificanti nello stesso tempo.