Hard Boiled Defective Stories
$30.00
Charles Burns collection from 1988 - RAW book published via Penguin.
I used to think this era of Burns was so different from the later work, but as I reacquaint myself with this one I see a lot more of the mutation-and-erosion stuff. The container stories and overall design are lower stakes, sort of quotational and poppy, but the drawings are still supercharged goth-sublime.