Charles Burns

Charles BurnsCharles Burns was born September 27, 1955. He grew up in Seattle during the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine during the mid-1980s and it took off from there, in an extraordinary range of projects and comics, from an ad campaign for Altoids to Iggy Pop album covers. He also did portrait illustrations for The Believer and his art was licensed by The Coca Cola Company in order to illustrate advertising and product material for their failed OK Soda product.