Charles Burns

About Charles Burns

In 1992 he designed the sets for the restaging Mark Morris was doing of “The Nutcracker”, now renamed as “The Hard Nut”, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Charles illustrated covers for The New York Times Magazine, Time, and The New Yorker. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine during its inception in the year 2003. In 1994, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. “Black Hole” received Ignatz, Eisner, and Harvey awards in 2005. “El Borbah” is a graphic novel that was released in 1987. Meet El Borbah, who is a 400 pound private eye that wear an eerie Mexican wrestler’s mask and tights. Subsisting totally on beer and junk food, he conducts his investigations with a short temper and tough talk. He smashes through skulls and doors while stalking a perfe