In a brief summary of Charles Burns, Burns is an artist who has gone from gallery work and photographic novels to comics. His career with comics began when he met Art Spiegelman, founder of Raw magazine, who invited him to contribute his works to it. His primary theme in his comics are that or terror and gore. Burns continued working with Raw magazine until 1991, contributing works such as ‘Dog Boy’, ‘Big Baby’, ‘The Voice of Walking Flesh’ and ‘A Marriage Made in Hell’. Burns moved to Europe and began to be printed in magazines in Italy, France, Germany, and Spain. In 1993 he cooperated with MTV to release an animated version of his ‘Dog Boy’, and in the following year began to work on his novel ‘Black Hole’. 
‘Black Hole’ is roughly a four hundred page comic novel about a sexually transmitted plague which causes mutation throughout a group of high school teenagers. He began working on the work in 1994 and it debuted in 2004. 
Though the story appears to focus on the plague, it is actually a physical manifestation of the inner turmoil that the characters face. 
In an interview Burns states that “he imagined it as a sort of metaphor for adolescence itself, for growing up, for changing so much so fast you get to a point where you no longer recognize yourself.”
Though the story appears to focus on the plague, it is actually a physical manifestation of the inner turmoil that the characters face. In an interview Burns states that “he imagined it as a sort of metaphor for adolescence itself, for growing up, for changing so much so fast you get to a point where you no longer recognize yourself.” At the start of the book there is a ‘yearbook’ page of the students and at the end of the book is the same after the students have mutated (photo above).
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