Black Hole
Intégrale
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
(Re)découvrez la série majeure de Charles Burns - un travail de 11 années, qui vous entraînera dans la noirceur d'une Amérique prostrée. L'intégrale Black Hole, un monument du 9e Art !
Dans une petite ville américaine, une étrange maladie fait son apparition. Ce mal, vite baptisé « la Crève », affecte exclusivement la population adolescente. Les symptômes, aussi variés qu'imprévisibles, provoquent parfois d'ignobles mutations. Rapidement, les pestiférés s'isolent et tentent de vivre avec cette maladie venue de nulle part?
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The prodigiously talented Burns hit the comics scene in the '80s via Raw magazine, wielding razor-sharp, ironic-retro graphics. Over the years his work has developed a horrific subtext perpetually lurking beneath the mundane suburban surface. In the dense, unnerving Black Hole,Burns combines realism never a concern for him before and an almost convulsive surrealism. The setting is Seattle during the early '70s. A sexually transmitted disease, the "bug," is spreading among teenagers. Those who get it develop bizarre mutations sometimes subtle, like a tiny mouth at the base of one boy's neck, and sometimes obvious and grotesque. The most visibly deformed victims end up living as homeless campers in the woods, venturing into the streets only when they have to, shunned by normal society. The story follows two teens, Keith and Chris, as they get the bug. Their dreams and hallucinations made of deeply disturbing symbolism merging sexuality and sickness are a key part of the tale. The AIDS metaphor is obvious, but the bug also amplifies already existing teen emotions and the wrenching changes of puberty. Burns's art is inhumanly precise, and he makes ordinary scenes as creepy as his nightmare visions of a world where intimacy means a life worse than death.
