Kommix

From the beguiling imagination of Charles Burns: 80 comic books that never were.

Publisher Marketing: In Kommix , [Burns] compiles dreamlike scenes, stylized to look like the covers of love comics from the nineteen-fifties and sixties, cheap pulp and porno zines, or exoticized foreign-looking publications. A punk Tintin, together with his black cat, discovers a large and fleshy appendage in the woods; a couple's intimate moment is disrupted by a perky intruder; and romantic teen-age scenes of passion and jealousy play out with a cast of all-male youngsters.-- "The New Yorker" Review Quotes : Charles Burns's comics are fluid, smooth and as solidly built as a vintage TV set, but they shudder with the chill of the uncanny.--Douglas Wolk "The New York Times" Review Quotes : Burns's stark chiaroscuro and thick, wood-block-esque line work [are] staples of the alternative-comics scene.--Abraham Riesman "Vulture" Review Quotes : Gorgeously designed, with an obvious sense of love for the genre fiction standards it is re-imagining, Kommix is a book that will invite constant revisitation.-- "Broken Frontier" Review Quotes : One of the books that first made me fall in love with comics was Burns's 2005 dystopian creep-fest Black Hole and I have been devoted to his high-contrast weirdness ever since.--Rachel Cooke "The Guardian" Review Quotes : Kommix presents a gorgeous, fictional collection of the absurd.-- "AIPT Comics" Review Quotes : A psychedelic maze of sci-fi, horror, and romance, plunging into themes of adolescence, transformation, and sex.-- "Cinema Sentries" Brief Description : "Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of 80 original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed"-- Review Quotes : The stand-alone cover is an ideal medium for Burns: a big, bold image to serve as an armature for his oblique obsessions.-- "The Baffler" Review Quotes : Fascinating and thought-provoking nightmare fuel.-- "LA Review of Books" Review Quotes : Charles Burns' stories and artwork seamlessly unite horror, surrealism, and disquieting absurdism, depicted in the style of dead-pan realism of true story / romance comic books.-- "The Book Beat" Review Quotes : For lovers of vintage pop culture, the covers of imaginary comic books by a contemporary master.-- "Kirkus Reviews" Publisher Marketing : WINNER 2025 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 80 | Publication Date: 2024-07-30