Final Cut

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

Sugar Skull is one of the most vividly drawn and painfully and honest expositions of male guilt I’ve ever read

Observer

Black Hole is best graphic novel of the year... One of the most stunning graphic novels yet published

TIME

A striking celebration of cinema's power and a chilling acknowledgement of its limitations.

Kirkus Reviews

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

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

Final Cut is among Burns’s best work, its huge full-page drawings pushing your buttons in the moonlit American outdoors

Guardian

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*

A powerfully allegorical comic in which nothing’s ever straightforward

Observer, *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*

Drawings and fantasies combine on the page with uneasy, often uncanny effect… There can have been few more unsettling or creepy books published this year

Times Literary Supplement

[His art], with its sharp border lines and tightly contained tracts of ink, is as precise and compelling as it has ever been.

The Washington Post, *Books of the Year*

Burns has a penchant for crafting images and stories that are both stylish and repulsive.

The New Yorker, *Books of the Year*