
Final Cut
Charles Burns(Author)
Pantheon (Publisher)
Published on 24. September 2024
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-593-70170-6 (ISBN)
Description
"As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the 'bodies' to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy's friend Tina, and Laurie--his reluctant muse--sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 16 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian's favorite movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one"--
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 285 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1224 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-70170-6 (9780593701706)
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Person
CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s RAW magazine in the mid-1980s, and since then he has worked on a wide range of projects including album covers, ad campaigns, and set design. He has illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, andThe New York Times Sunday Magazine, and is the cover artist for The Believer. His full-length graphic novel, Black Hole received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards. He lives in Philadelphia.