Skin Deep

Skin Deep

<p><strong>Classic stories starring Dog Boy and Mister Blister, as well as several tales of doomed romance and creepy revulsion, plus a selection of sketchbook excerpts, covers and illustrations.</strong></p> Charles Burns is the creator of the landmark horror graphic novel <em>Black Hole</em> (in development as a major motion picture directed by David Fincher). <em>Skin Deep</em> is the third (following <em>El Borbah</em> and <em>Big Baby</em>) of a series of three volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to <em>Black Hole</em>. <em>Skin Deep</em> includes Burns's popular character Dog Boy (a red-blooded all-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog) and the classic strip "Dog Days," in which a hash-slinging vixen wags her tail at our fearful hero. The book also collects "Burn Again," which features a strange fella named Bliss Blister, claiming to bring the Word of God, but some fear he brings something evil and profane. In "A Marriage Made in Hell," a young wife's flesh tingled with passion, but the sight of her made her husband's skin crawl. Was the love-knot she tied really a hangman's noose? These tales of doomed romance set a tone for the rest of <em>Skin Deep</em>. In addition to the comics, <em>Skin Deep</em> includes several pages of new illustrations reprinted from Burns's sketchbooks as well as covers and other pieces from foreign editions of Burns's work. 96 pages of b/w comics