Comic book serie : KOMMIX

From the beguiling imagination of
Charles Burns: 80 comic books that
never were.
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.
The covers — some with otherworldly titles in
alien letterforms, and others that riff on classic
genres (Throbbing Hearts, Unwholesome Love) and
eras (Drug Buddy, Huss) — each inspire a multitude
of interpretations, build entire worlds, and suggest
entire narratives that lie within their non-existent
guts. This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and
suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue
to explore many of the themes that run through
all his longer-form work — adolescence, metamorphosis,
nightmares, and sexuality — and provide a pretext
for the creation of some of the most mysterious and
bewitching imagery of Burns’s incredible career. Kommix
is like discovering an entire box of comic books you
never knew existed.