Skin Deep

Charles Burns's Skin Deep is a single-issue comic published by Fantagraphics in 2009, offering a concentrated dose of his signature, meticulously detailed black-and-white artwork. This standalone story distills the unsettling, retro-futurist sensibility Burns is known for, exploring themes of adolescence and transformation through a surreal, ominous lens. It's a potent, self-contained entry from a master of the medium.