Big Baby (French Edition)

 Charles Burns

Cornelius Editions

THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH

With the purchase of this book, Cornelius has generously included an exclusive Big Baby bookplate (18 × 24 cm format – offset print)!

 Charles Burns
• Solange Collection
• 120 pages in black and white and color
• 22 x 29 cm
• Hardcover, cloth spine

With *Big Baby*, Charles Burns pitches his little "tent of horrors" in 1950s America—an era that, thanks to mass media, was rediscovering Edgar Allan Poe and his paranoid universe: a world of shadows and subterranean depths teeming with monsters, vampires, and ghosts.

Subverting the clichés and conventions of E.C. Comics, *Big Baby* draws the reader into the darkness residing within the human heart. From this gothic tale—rendered in icy black-and-white and laced with biting humor—rises the stench of decay: the smell of a humanity rotting from the inside out, gnawed away by fear and frustration.

The comic books that Big Baby reads in secret serve the same function as the portrait of Dorian Gray hidden in his attic: they physically manifest the progression of the sickness consuming the human soul. Inflicting terrifying stigmata upon the body, the leprosy of alienation grafts onto the faces of Burns’s characters the grotesque mask of their own inner apocalypse.

Parents forbid their children from having bad dreams, even as reality itself proves to be a nightmare; for at any moment, violence and madness can erupt from an all-too-ordinary daily existence, threatening to engulf everything in their path. And this time, simply turning off the television won't be enough to escape them...

This new hardcover edition features a 16-page color insert containing never-before-published *Big Baby* illustrations!