Final Cut

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 *