Title: TOXIC Author: CHARLES BURNS
Editorial: MONDADORI
Pages: 64
RRP: € 17.90
Of the many noteworthy elements of Toxic, which is like Dew Maya has solved the Castilian translation of the original title, but that will speak after the color-start.
course one knows the four-color illustrations by Charles Burns (Washington DC, 1955) and remember, for example, publishing in full color booklet Blood Club held in the 90 by Kitchen Sink, but, except for error or oversight, should note that this is the first album of Burns designed and printed four-color directory. And is the author see that black hole thing is not without significance, since it is an artist associated with fire with black and white graphic style which, in the wake of Chester Gould and Al Feldstein, to cite only two names that come immediately to head around the role traditionally granted to the inking. With Toxic, the prominence of black bodies is shared with the varied and bright spot substituted white. As a researcher who is, Burns is to create some games with the color-polaroid photo revealing the transition from blue to pink in
pas or a reality to another, the constant rate of black rectangles and color, the red blood of Sarah displayed the passage of the blade, etc., "but ultimately, it is clear that the thrust of the process color is, quite simply, to bring the tone of the book the Comic Strip, in particular to Tintin confessed influence in the poetry of Burns. Toxic The cover artwork that pays tribute to iconic star mysteriously just the first Tintin album was printed directly on color-and there throughout the book is a disturbing merger of Franco-American indie and comics. Regarding the former, can be understood as an appendix Toxic black holes, and in this respect is enjoyed with gusto, but no surprises-the accident, illness, abortion, loss, family alienation, bizarre sexuality are recurring themes in Burns, "as the latter, the thing becomes its own appeal and the dream world, without being exceptional, is amazing. However, the novelty of the work, no doubt, is not either, but in that mix. And the set leaves the reader the flavor of the sick imagination of a powerful and William Burroughs, who, incidentally, is specifically cited in Toxic. Returning
finally the question title, without downgrading at all the excellent work of the translator of Toxic, which excels in all aspects, yes I would like to point the reader to the original complex X'ed Out-of translation, since it refers to cross something with an X, as in a questionnaire, but also press the X Window software for closed-graph has its equivalence with the inside of the album title page, a page of black on red rectangles are but a giant X on an O, that is, a visual representation of the initials of the two words in the title. That is. Javier Fernández
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