An early classic from the author of Black Hole .\nMeet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists.\nEl Borbah features five science-fiction and true-detective In "Robot Love," rebellious kids in nightclubs replace their "parts" with mechanical substitutes as part of a new fad, only to find that their parents have been automating themselves all along; in "Love in Vein" a mad visionary sperm donor plans a master race and turns "his" kids against their parents; "Bone Voyage" details the exploits of a cult called the Brotherhood of the Bone, a kind of cross between the Masons and the Mansons. The fantastic plots take up the weird fears of a scientific society, but the action is pure pulp. Charles Burns effortlessly spins yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama. And through it all crashes El Borbah, trying to make an honest buck from dishonest people.\nBurns is the author of Black Hole , the acknowledged masterpiece of the form that Fantagraphics serialized through the 1990s and will be collected into a massive graphic novel in 2005 by Pantheon Books. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a "sci-fi-noir" aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.

Hard-Boiled Defective Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Charles Burns

Fantasy

Penguin??Books

One of the decade's premiere illustrators presents three "Tales of Doomed Romance": Burn Again, a long strange tale of a hypnotic televangelist and his messianic cult; Marriage Made in Hell; and Dog Boy, the rollicking story of a young boy saved by the transplanted heart of a dog. Illustrations throughout.

Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance

Comics & Graphic Novels

R. Sikoryak

Comic Strips

LAST LOOK

Graphic Novels

JONATHAN CAPE.

Blab!

Monte Beauchamp

How To Create Comics & Manga

Kitchen Sink Press

Black Hole #1

A group of middle-class teenager contracta sexually transmitted disease!

Kitchen Sink Press, Inc.

Black Hole #3

Big Baby

Raw Books & Graphics

Mastering Silhouettes: Expert Instruction in the Art of Silhouette Portraiture

Arts & Photography

Fil Rouge

"Expo 2000" is the book companion to America's preeminent festival of independent cartoonists and publishers, which is held annually to benefit the non-profit comic book legal defense fund. This anthology brings together more than sixty of the finest talents of the international alternative comics movement in a single sizzling volume.

Expo 2000

SETH

Kevin Scalzo

Megan Kelso

Adrian Tomine

Ivan Brunetti

James Kochalka

Chris, Ware

Westhampton House

Black Hole #7

Fantagraphics Books

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