Big Baby

Charles Burns’s Big Baby collects his early, unsettling short stories from the 1990s, originally published in RAW and elsewhere, into a single Fantagraphics volume. This 2007 collection showcases Burns’s signature style—meticulous black-and-white linework and a creeping sense of dread—as it follows alienated children and teens through a suburban landscape of grotesque transformations and hidden horrors. A key entry in Burns’s bibliography, it bridges his RAW era work with the more expansive nightmares of Black Hole.