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From the author of Black Hole

Author: Charles Burns  

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An arresting story of an artist's obsessions, from the beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole.'An instant classic from a master of the form'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'Unsettling and beautifully executed'GUARDIANAn arresting story of an artist's obsessions, from the beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole.As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make home movies in their yards, coaxing their friends into starring as victims of grisly murders and smearing lipstick on them to simulate blood. Now an aspiring filmmaker, he, Jimmy and new girl in town Laurie - his reluctant muse - set off to a remote cabin in the woods.Armed with an old camera, they film a true sci-fi horror movie where humans are born of disembodied alien wombs, in homage to The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams - both his damsel in distress and his saviour.Final Cut blurs the line between dreams and reality, imagination and perception in this astonishing look at what it truly means to express oneself through art.A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE NEW YORKER AND THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARCharles Burns, Eisner Award-Winner, 2006

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Critic Reviews

Beautifully disturbing...A masterpiece of mood. This book is still haunting me! -- George Kay, writer of TV-series Lupin and Hijack
Art, dreams and reality form a near-seamless mesh... unsettling and beautifully executed Guardian, Books of the Year
How thrilling to see the return of celebrated American creator Charles Burns on such uncompromisingly fierce form... Suffused with apprehension, this is a powerfully allegorical comic' -- Rachel Cooke Observer, Books of the Year
Burns' new book is a joy to read and a welcome return to his long form storytelling that he’s been sorely absent from for years. The central plot is beautifully told with subtle meanderings from a bygone age of youth, but accompanied with the strange and often disturbing imagery we’re so used to seeing from a creator at the top of his game. A great melding of both style and substance. -- Charlie Adlard, author of The Walking Dead
I love everything about this book: the story, the drawings, its way with all things extraterrestrial… It’s wraparound wonderful, as close to immersive as any comic could be… a book to be read and reread Observer
Charles Burns' comics are fluid, smooth and as solidly built as a vintage TV set, but they shudder with the chill of the uncanny New York Times
The confidence with which Burns positions himself within the larger map of other writing and art is entirely earned New Statesman
Final Cut is among Burns’s best work, its huge full-page drawings pushing your buttons in the moonlit American outdoors Guardian
A striking celebration of cinema's power and a chilling acknowledgement of its limitations. Kirkus Reviews
Sugar Skull is one of the most vividly drawn and painfully and honest expositions of male guilt I’ve ever read Observer

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About the Author

Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's delightful restaging of The Nutcracker. He's illustrated covers for Time, the New Yorker and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the official cover artist for The Believer magazine. Black Hole received Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published
26th September 2024
Pages
224
ISBN
9781787335219

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