Sugar Skull

The long strange trip of Doug reaches its mind-bending heartbreaking end but not before he is forced to deal with the lie hes been telling himself since the beginning. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality and when you finally find out where all of this has been going and what it means . . . well. I wont spoil it here but it will make you go right back to page one of Xed Out and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug. Review Strange fantastical and largely terrifying… If you fancy escaping into a dystopian nightmare… then we can’t recommend Burns’ work highly enough. ―Esquire UKMy strong feeling is that this series is one of the most vividly drawn and painfully and honest expositions of male guilt I’ve ever read… I love Charles Burns…and I really adore these books. ―ObserverFizzes and pops. -- Teddy Jamieson ―Glasgow Sunday HeraldFans who return to the first two volumes will find even more resonance there now that the trilogy is complete. ―MetroBurns brings it all together inSugar Skull. I don’t know which impressed me more - the slow build-up over three books to the revelation and knowledge that the final volume delivers. -- Neel Mukherjee ―New Statesman About the Author Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art SpiegelmansRaw 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 Morriss delightful restaging ofThe Nutcracker. Hes illustrated covers forTime theNew Yorker and theNew York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the official cover artist forThe Believer magazine.Black Hole received Eisner Harvey and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.