Daedalus

Charles Burns brings his signature meticulous linework and eerie, dreamlike sensibility to this three-issue series from Concerto Books, co-written with Arend Jan van Oudheusden. A moody, labyrinthine tale that unfolds in a single night, Daedalus follows its title character through a surreal, claustrophobic journey that blurs memory and myth. Burns’s dense, black-and-white illustrations—reminiscent of his celebrated Black Hole—anchor this European-style graphic novella in a world of quiet dread and psychological weight. A concise but potent addition to Burns’s body of work, it showcases his mastery of atmosphere and the slow-burn horror of the everyday.