About the AuthorCharles Burns is the Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose work became legendary in Art Spiegelmans RAW magazine.About the BookSuburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. The disease is manifested in any number of ways from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) but once you ve got it, that s it. There s no turning back. And then the murders start. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, "Black Hole" transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.