Black Hole

Charles Burns’s Black Hole is a haunting, black-and-white horror-drama published by Kitchen Sink Press from 1995 to 1997, spanning four issues. The series follows a group of teenagers in 1970s Seattle as a mysterious, sexually transmitted disease—the "bug"—spreads among them, manifesting as bizarre physical mutations. Burns, as both writer and artist, crafts a moody, meticulously detailed world that blends coming-of-age angst with body horror, capturing the anxiety and alienation of adolescence. Its stark, dreamlike art and unflinching narrative made it a landmark of alternative comics, later collected as a celebrated graphic novel.