Black Hole

Name: Black Hole
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«Many regard Black Hole as one of the greatest graphic novels, and it's not hard to see why. Burns's black-and-white strips are so cool, and his story - sex, drugs and teenage mutants - grips like a vice.»
Rachel Cooke, Observer

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And you thought your adolescence was scary.

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 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 of 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 (and, believe it or not, autobiographical), 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 any more, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.

To say nothing of sprouting horns and moulting your skin . . .

Detaljer

Forlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN: 9780224077781
Utgivelsesår: 2005
Format: 24 x 17 cm

Om forfatteren

Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's delightful restaging of The Nutcracker. He's illustrated covers for Time, the New Yorker and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the official cover artist for The Believer magazine. Black Hole received Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.

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«Many regard Black Hole as one of the greatest graphic novels, and it's not hard to see why. Burns's black-and-white strips are so cool, and his story - sex, drugs and teenage mutants - grips like a vice.»
Rachel Cooke, Observer

«Drawn in [Burns’] signature woodblock style, and [is] visually memorising»
Stong Word

«A bleak but brilliant tale of suburban alienation»
Marc Chacksfield, ShortList

«Black Hole just might be the most perfect book going, if not the sexiest... As startling and evocative a work as the medium has ever produced.»
Matt Fraction, Art Bomb

«Make no mistake: this is a bleak book that tries desperately in its final frames to introduce a note of optimism in resignation. It's also brilliant.»
Peter Millar, The Times

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BackPacker – 04.01.2008

– "Black hole" er en tegneserieroman, en slags thriller. For de som husker "Iskalde grøss," så er tegnestilen ganske lik den linjen det bladet lå på. Og historien har snev av grøss i seg også, men det er ikke en horror-fortelling. Det dreier seg om en merkelig sykdom som sprer seg blant ungdommer i en amerikansk by. Hendelsene blir skildret gjennom forskjellige karakterer i historien, og historien er bra bygget opp. Tegningene liker jeg veldig godt, og fortellerstilen river meg med i historien. Det er en stor bok, men den er unnagjort på kort tid! Jeg likte denne veldig godt, og anbefaler den gjerne. Kommer snart i norsk utgave!