{"product_id":"9781683969570","title":"Kommix","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the beguiling imagination of Charles Burns: 80 comic books that never were.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024-07-30\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489142395011,"sku":"9781683969570","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781683969570.jpg?v=1770340277","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781683969570","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}