X'ed Out

I don't read the places one would need to read in order to keep up with this sort of news so this could be old news to those of you that do keep up with this sort of news, but this is the first I've heard about it. "It" being Charles Burns follow-up to the masterpiece that was Black Hole. Via here (via my bud Sean who does indeed follow this sort of news, thankfully for me) comes a scan of a promo flyer that was being passed out at MoCCA this past weekend.

That link where these came from makes clear what Burns is making an homage to here as well - it's a cover of a Tin Tin book, click over to see. X'ed Out is out on October 19th.

Black Hole is astonishing and if you haven't read it, do. If you've seen Fear(s) of the Dark, the animated French anthology horror flick from a couple of years ago that I trumpeted kind of relentlessly - my 2nd fave horror film of 2008 - then you've seen Burns' work. His was the super-creepy section with the bug-men. I anticipate anything new from him as excitedly as I do something new from Michael Haneke or Paul Thomas Anderson.

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