Skin Deep (Hardcover)

by Charles Burns (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
The work of Charles Burns is a vision that's both horrifying and hilariously funny, and which quite..... human! --R. Crumb

Product Description
"The work of Charles Burns is a vision that's both horrifying and hilariously funny, and which he executes with cold, ruthless clarity... It's almost as if the artist... as if he weren't quite..... human!" - R. Crumb

Charles Burns is the Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose work became legendary in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine. Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby, also available through Seven Hills) of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current project, the ongoing Black Hole comic book series.

Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy, a red-blooded All-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog, which was turned into a live action segment on MTV's Liquid Television series; new covers and endpapers; as well as several pages of new illustrations from his sketchbooks, as well as covers and other drawings from foreign editions of his work

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 104 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (December 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560973900
• ISBN-13: 978-1560973904
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #816,264 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Charles Burns lays the ink, touches the dark heart of Americ, October 21, 1997

By	[e-mail] (Culleoka, TX, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance (Penguin Graphic Fiction) (Paperback)

My wife doesn't like this book. That's all you need to know. Go for it. Well, I'll vouchsafe a bit more. A cartoonist I was talking to once put it very neatly. Speaking of his education by another cartoonist, he said "he taught me the art of knowing where to put the ink." Sounds silly, I know, but think about that next time you look at a B&W comic book. To me, Charles Burns might well be the first book I'd hand to someone, as Exhibit A of knowing where to put the ink. And I haven't even gotten around to discussing his subject matter, yet! You need to know that Burns' work is very emotional, more than a little surreal, peopled by montrous humanoids, a little too familiar for my tastes; most people would say ugly, the rest, beautiful. Themes of doglike love, the rampage of spirituality gone hopelessly awry, the pieces of passion exploded beyond recognition, and stitched together like a calico cat. It's all here. Good luck.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, Twisted and Funny, July 6, 2002

By A Customer

I confess to being a Burns freak, owning everything I can find of his - even if he only has one or two pages in a book, I will buy it. This doesn't disappoint if you are a fan of Burns, or just enjoy comix that are deeply twisted, some sort of hell from the inside of a demented mind. Burns has a distinctive way with the pen and the comix themselves are also enjoyable.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Film-Noir Meets The Outer Limits At Midnight, June 18, 1998

By	Myron S. Johnson "DJ" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance (Penguin Graphic Fiction) (Paperback)

Distinctly creepy with a great deal of reality placed in a blender with some bad speed.Think of the images left in your mind when you wake up from a bad dream right before you get the shades open!!First rate story telling and art.