Is it just a question that every step takes a lot of time? You have a reputation for meticulous work. You were asking me how I work, and generally I work just by taking notes and notations and little scribbles, drawings, sketches, that sort of thing, and going from there. It grew out of that and it grew out of a few false starts. The primary focus wasn't just about punk culture or that time period specifically. I also realized in the process of making notes and gathering ideas, that there were other ideas that were starting to enter into this story. I had a few false starts where I was really doing, not a literal translation, but I was just approaching it in a way that seemed very pedestrian. I had a very vague idea that I wanted to do a comic that took place during the original punk era that I experienced living around the Bay Area in the late seventies. It was just a matter of enjoying working with them and thinking that I was going to give this book its best chance to get out in bookstores.ĭo your projects typically begin with images, story, themes? What is your process?Ī little bit of all those things. They have a great collection of authors that are doing comics. "X-ed Out" is the first of a three volume series Pantheon previously published the collection of "Black Hole." What made them the right publisher for this book as well? I was one of those rare kids of my generation who grew up reading Tintin and it had a very profound effect on me, so this is the way that I can kind of reflect on that and play with some of those ideas. A hardbound albums with continuing characters. If you just think of the Franco-Belgian style of creating comic albums in that format, the way those European make them which is the 64 pages, 48 pages. There's certainly a very strong Herge influence. CBR News spoke with the acclaimed creator about his latest project.ĬBR News: Typically the first question is, "What is the book about?" Someone asked me that about "X'ed Out," and I said the best comparison I could think of was "Tintin" meets "Black Hole."Ĭharles Burns: There's a little bit of that. It uses the tropes and atmosphere of horror movies along with the skill of a talented artist at the height of his craft to create one of the great contemporary depictions of adolescence in any medium.įor his new book "X'ed Out," available this week from Pantheon, Burns is serializing his new story in three volumes - and he's working in color. For most people, however, when they hear the name Charles Burns, they think of his magnum opus, "Black Hole." Serialized between 19 before being collected by Pantheon in 2005, "Black Hole" is set in Seattle in the early seventies and deals with a sexually transmitted disease that causes physical mutations in teenagers.
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