Big Baby

Charles Burns's Big Baby is a singular, unsettling series from the French publisher Cornélius, launched in 2003 and ongoing. This single-issue work distills Burns's signature style—a meticulous, clean line rendering a world of creeping dread—into a compact, potent story. It matters as a concentrated dose of the artist's fascination with the dark undercurrents of mid-century American childhood, presenting a deceptively simple narrative that lingers long after the final page.