Picked up a graphic novel run I have wanted for a long time. The complete series of Black Hole by Charles Burns, my absolute favorite graphic artist of all time. Hopefully I will have the privilege of owning a piece of original art by Mr. Burns at some point. His original work rarely comes up for sale, and what has come up recently got out of my budget very quickly.
Black Hole is a twelve-issue comic book limited series written and illustrated by Charles Burns and published first by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics. It was released in collected form in 2005 by Pantheon Books.
The story deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted disease which causes grotesque mutations in teenagers.
It was published as a 12-issue comic book limited series between 1995 and 2005. The first four issues were released by Kitchen Sink Press; after Kitchen Sink went out of business, Fantagraphics republished the first four issues and the remaining eight. A compiled hardcover volume was released by Pantheon Books in 2005. This collected edition, however, lacks many pages that were included in the first publication- the ones that showed some characters' faces. These pages are considered by some critics to be essential.