Charles Burns
Black Hole #1
Kitchen Sink Press, 1995
(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