Charles Burns

Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. Hs work rose
to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine in
the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary
range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to
the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the
set for Mark Morris’s delightful restaging of The
Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM. He’s illustrated
covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York
Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official
cover artist for The Believer magazine at its
inception in 2003. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his
wife and two daughters.