Close-Up #5

Charles Burns
Black Hole #1 (1995)
Published by Kitchen Sink Press (reprint in Fantagraphics, 1998)

I try to achieve something that’s almost like a visceral effect. The quality of the lines and the density of the black take on a character of their own—it’s something that has an effect on your subconscious. Those lines make you feel a certain way.
—Charles Burns, interviewed in The Believer in 2008

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