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El Borbah
An early cult classic graphic novel from the author of the acclaimed Black Hole . Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists.
El Borbah features five science-fiction and true-detective episodes: In "Robot Love," rebellious kids in nightclubs replace their "parts" with mechanical substitutes as part of a new fad, only to find that their parents have been automating themselves all along; in "Love in Vein" a mad visionary sperm donor plans a master race and turns "his" kids against their parents; "Bone Voyage" details the exploits of a cult called the Brotherhood of the Bone, a kind of cross between the Masons and the Mansons. The fantastic plots take up the weird fears of a scientific society, but the action is pure pulp. Charles Burns effortlessly spins yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama. And through it all crashes El Borbah, trying to make an honest buck from dishonest people.
Burns is the author of Black Hole , the acknowledged masterpiece of the form that Fantagraphics serialized through the 1990s and will be collected into a massive graphic novel in 2005 by Pantheon Books. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a "sci-fi-noir" aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.
El Borbah features five science-fiction and true-detective episodes: In "Robot Love," rebellious kids in nightclubs replace their "parts" with mechanical substitutes as part of a new fad, only to find that their parents have been automating themselves all along; in "Love in Vein" a mad visionary sperm donor plans a master race and turns "his" kids against their parents; "Bone Voyage" details the exploits of a cult called the Brotherhood of the Bone, a kind of cross between the Masons and the Mansons. The fantastic plots take up the weird fears of a scientific society, but the action is pure pulp. Charles Burns effortlessly spins yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama. And through it all crashes El Borbah, trying to make an honest buck from dishonest people.
Burns is the author of Black Hole , the acknowledged masterpiece of the form that Fantagraphics serialized through the 1990s and will be collected into a massive graphic novel in 2005 by Pantheon Books. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a "sci-fi-noir" aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
About the author
Charles Burns
115 books942 followersCHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, in an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He 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. Black Hole received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.
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August 19, 2014
Cyborg cults ran by robots, gun-wielding babies with dead geriatrics' heads transplanted atop their uncoordinated bodies, a fast-food chain whose burger patties contain mind-controlling additives, a cabal of wealthy hedonists, blackmail, runaway teens, missing dames, and an endless array of shady characters (and all of them lying out both sides of their mouth): it's all in a day's work for El Borbah, the heavy drinking, hard eating, perpetually smoking, two-fisted, rude-mouthed luchador turned private eye, and eponymous star of this early collection of serialized shorts from Charles Burns, the hands and mind who brought us the now classic horror story of teenage sex and alienation, Black Hole.
May 22, 2021
Huge love... silly gross film noir private eye stories with mutants and robots and monsters mixed in. El Borbah is the detective of my dreams!!
February 14, 2008
El Borbah is a rude, obnoxious, selfish, and incredibly stupid masked wrestler detective.
When he's not chain-smoking and strong-arming his clients for his advance fee, he's investigating missing persons that have either been converted into robots, had their adult heads grafted onto baby bodies or secretaries brainwashed into behaving like 4-year old infants.
Burns is a very cool artist and El Borbah is a pisser, elbowing his oafish way through every case.
When he's not chain-smoking and strong-arming his clients for his advance fee, he's investigating missing persons that have either been converted into robots, had their adult heads grafted onto baby bodies or secretaries brainwashed into behaving like 4-year old infants.
Burns is a very cool artist and El Borbah is a pisser, elbowing his oafish way through every case.
June 10, 2023
W końcu komiks Burnsa który mi się podobał. Tytułowy El Borbah (meksykański zawodnik wrestlingu) pracuję jako prywatny detektyw w bardzo specyficznym mieście. Jak miasto jest dziwne to i zlecenia.
Kreska dużo bardziej zróżnicowana niż w innych dziełach autora i więcej ma szczegółów które czasem są zaskakujące.
Nie są to może wybitne historie, ale czytało się i oglądało super.
Kreska dużo bardziej zróżnicowana niż w innych dziełach autora i więcej ma szczegółów które czasem są zaskakujące.
Nie są to może wybitne historie, ale czytało się i oglądało super.
March 7, 2011
Prior to this, the only work I've read by Charles Burns was Black Hole - I was entirely unprepared for El Borbah. The main character is crass, violent, and not incredibly bright, while the story lines are random, dark, awkward, and painfully amusing. This is a fantastic collection; Charles Burns is a brilliant author and artist - he couldn't write enough of this stuff to satisfy my interest.
October 17, 2014
I just finished Burns's most recent 3 volume trilogy, ending with Sugar Skull, and found it pretty amazing. So, glancing over what I had never read from Burns, I found this, which is the same size and colored similarly on the cover (the actual stories are black and white, and would be improved by being in garish color), and it is more than 30 years old, rereleased in 2010. It has the same funny nightmare weirdness of Sugar Skull series, but is a kind of mashup of horror/fantasy/noir/Mexican wrestling/TinTin/fifties pre-Comics code comic "moral degradation," so what's not to like, right? And it is fun, with crude tough noir dialogue and violence and it is often funny, too. I think Burns's later effort seems "better" to me, or it's more for my current tastes, in that it deals with more serious themes, early mistakes, regret, a blend of nightmare/acid flashbacks/youth memory and wild imagination, instead of just wild storytelling. El Borbah is all fun, and some will like that even better, I am guessing.
February 2, 2012
Fun stories that lampoon and celebrate the detective pulps. Along with that great heavy line weight and high contrast Charles Burns does so damn well. The extra large format is much appreciated (I can't stand how Pantheon shrunk down the pages of Black Hole for the collected hardback, what on earth were they thinking??).
March 21, 2016
A masked Mexican wrestler detective... what more could you ask for?
March 12, 2021
O RESUMO DA ÓPERA: O horror é tão absurdo que se torna corriqueiro.
El Borbah um detetive particular, dotado dos poderes de um luchador Mexicano. Como El Santo, tem seu rosto mascarado e corpo musculosamente rechonchudo, imune a qualquer ataque de criminosos. Ao contrário do herói que estrelava filmes e quadrinhos, além dos ringues de telecatch, Borbah empresta dos filmes noir seu modus operandi. Não tem glamour como um personagem de Bogart, Borbah é grosseiro e bruto. O protagonista não quer saber de papo, apenas de resolver o caso e ganhar a bufunfa, não se interessa pela salvação dos oprimidos ou pela libertação dos acorrentados.
El Borbah vive em um mundo entre Além da Imaginação e quadrinhos de horror da EC Comics. Num misto de horror e ficção científica, chega-se ao mundo real. Todos os clientes de Borbah são tão vis quanto os criminosos investigados e, mesmo nossos heróis fazendo tudo pela grana, não consegue evitar ficar estupefato com a podridão de seus clientes. Ele é um homem simples, que pode resolver tudo com socos e não se importa com a dor. “Jesus Cristinho… Preciso de uma cerevja…” E quem não precisa?
Se em Big Baby o cotidiano se revelava equivalente ao horror, aqui já não há mais o assombro, o horrível está aí para todos verem, cotidiano. Não muito diferente do mundo ao nosso redor.
El Borbah um detetive particular, dotado dos poderes de um luchador Mexicano. Como El Santo, tem seu rosto mascarado e corpo musculosamente rechonchudo, imune a qualquer ataque de criminosos. Ao contrário do herói que estrelava filmes e quadrinhos, além dos ringues de telecatch, Borbah empresta dos filmes noir seu modus operandi. Não tem glamour como um personagem de Bogart, Borbah é grosseiro e bruto. O protagonista não quer saber de papo, apenas de resolver o caso e ganhar a bufunfa, não se interessa pela salvação dos oprimidos ou pela libertação dos acorrentados.
El Borbah vive em um mundo entre Além da Imaginação e quadrinhos de horror da EC Comics. Num misto de horror e ficção científica, chega-se ao mundo real. Todos os clientes de Borbah são tão vis quanto os criminosos investigados e, mesmo nossos heróis fazendo tudo pela grana, não consegue evitar ficar estupefato com a podridão de seus clientes. Ele é um homem simples, que pode resolver tudo com socos e não se importa com a dor. “Jesus Cristinho… Preciso de uma cerevja…” E quem não precisa?
Se em Big Baby o cotidiano se revelava equivalente ao horror, aqui já não há mais o assombro, o horrível está aí para todos verem, cotidiano. Não muito diferente do mundo ao nosso redor.
July 3, 2021
De uma coisa fique certo: o estilo e o conteúdo que Charles Burns produz são inconfundíveis e quem gostou de um trabalho dele é possível que goste de todos. Eu fui fisgado ainda em 2008 quando li a primeira edição de Black Hole. E assim foi indo com outros trabalhos que despertam o lado mais estranho, mais bizarro da humanidade neles: Sem Volta, Big Baby e este aqui, El Borbah. Este último acompanha um detetive que também um luchador de luta livre em um mundo em que o bizarro parece a ordem do dia. Assim, as histórias que foram publicadas em Defective Comics, trazem um rol de pessoas defeituosas - como é de praxe no trabalho de Burns - com problemas ainda mais embasbacantes do que elas. Tudo isso casa direitinho com o traço pesado imposto por Charles Burns. O resultado são histórias totalmente fora do comum, mas que guardam algumas metáforas sobre a vida daqueles que estão lendo esta história em quadrinhos. Uma leitura muito boa e diferente, mas feita à moda Burns.
March 10, 2021
I’ve always found formative books by respected writers and artists more revealing than their actual “classics”. El Borbah is a case in point, an early work by Charles Burns where the artist is refining his obsessions and styles but with a significantly higher proportion of comedy and daftness than normal. There’s still a darkness and strangeness to the book, evident on pretty much every page and indicative of the direction Burns would take with his work, but El Borbah himself just takes no shit about all that and pushes through the grotesques with ease. Very funny and beautiful to look at, with Burns’ unique visual style growing almost by the page. It’s kind of a relief to see the afterword and see that yes, Burns did start as us normal cartoonists did and has simply refined his talent through practice and perseverance
August 14, 2023
El Borbah is a pure delight and I venture saying for many audiences. The avid readers of hard boiled detective plots will get their share, so will the Twilight Zone fans as for the graphomaniacs, these will 🤯
Following the tradition in the hard boiled private eye stories, El Borbah is very spot on in revealing the little - and not so little - things we as a society go onto great lenghts to conceal.
Following the tradition in the hard boiled private eye stories, El Borbah is very spot on in revealing the little - and not so little - things we as a society go onto great lenghts to conceal.
March 24, 2021
I wish there was a million more comics like this. It's really what I'm looking for in a comic. A strange character on a bizarre adventure, that's more about the fun and absurd nature of the story, then being serious and dark.
Very strange to see Charles Burns doing such a smart ass character. El Borbah basically threatens to kick everyone's ass (and he can do it to!).
Very strange to see Charles Burns doing such a smart ass character. El Borbah basically threatens to kick everyone's ass (and he can do it to!).
January 10, 2014
Fantastic compilation of early detective stories by Charles Burns, the comics revolve around the bizarre adventures of El Borbah a giant private detective with a Mexican Luchador outfit and passion for cigarettes and smashing up criminals. The stories are filled with graphic references to old pulp detective mags, film-noir, aliens, robots, evil secret brotherhoods and all kinds of sci-fi parafernalia, and like all Burns comics the pure black and white artwork is stunning. Definitely a must read.
May 24, 2007
Charles Burns takes Roy Lichtenstein, blends him with early 80's downtown NY and puts them back into a surrealist glee-ride of a book. Not a masterpiece like Black Hole but chock full of signifiers both fun and profound. Can't even imagine how weird it must have been to read these tales in 1982.
Originally published as Hard-Boiled Defective Stories, I read a few of these stories while I was in high school and was turned off by the art edge. Didn't get it. Now I can't get enough.
Originally published as Hard-Boiled Defective Stories, I read a few of these stories while I was in high school and was turned off by the art edge. Didn't get it. Now I can't get enough.
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September 21, 2008Came to Charles Burns late. I like this one least, but should should qualify that as being the least among an insanely beautiful oeuvre. If you pick this one to begin you might love it...my friend does, anyway...not my favorite, but still superb and original.
October 18, 2010
Not too far off my Flaming Carrot fixation. Hard-boiled absurdist hero/detective solves crimes of greedy corporate factions and seedy science fictions. Is damn shame Orson Welles is not around to direct and star in the movie versions of these...
January 23, 2015
Man, this was so much fun. Amidst the body grotesquery, Charles Burns can be quite a serious and meaningful author. so it's great to see him cut loose and just have some manic adventures.
El Borbah goes to some strange-ass places, and I loved every minute of reading it.
El Borbah goes to some strange-ass places, and I loved every minute of reading it.
December 1, 2016
What's not to love? A flabby, violent, gumshoe reeling around in a world of freaks and dsytopian grimness. It's funny, weird, a beautiful.
September 9, 2022
Delving into the early work of a favourite cartoonist (or author, director, musician etc) is always a risky business. It can be fascinating to see the development of a beloved style, or to see the same artistic voice applied to a different type of work, but it’s hard not to go in with sky-high hopes that are unlikely to be met by a creator still honing his or her craft.
Nonetheless, I’m too big of a Charles Burns fan to resist the temptation. I count both of his complete long-form works – Black Hole (1995–2005) and Last Look (2010–2014) – among my absolute favourite comics, loving them for their complex, believable characters and their use of weird genre elements to explore relatable human anxieties. What’s more, the first and second volumes of Burns’s currently ongoing series, Dédales (2019–), are very promising and mine a similar vein.
My first dive into Burns’ back catalogue was Big Baby, which collects comics from 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1992, and which clearly shows Burns developing his trademark blend of strange horror and compelling human drama. Although the publication period of the El Borbah comics overlaps with that of the Big Baby strips, this is overall older work,* and it frankly feels completely different from any other Burns that I’ve read.
Even a short outline of El Borbah’s basic premise is enough to make it clear that it’s worlds away from Black Hole: these five comics* follow a private investigator who dresses like a Mexican masked wrestler and uses his superhuman strength and straight-talking take-no-shit attitude to solve mysteries in a decaying futuristic metropolis populated by robots, mutants, heartless capitalists, mad scientists and perverse cultists. It’s very much a noir homage, taking all the tropes of that genre (right down to the style of dialogue) and placing them in a twisted, outlandish, dystopian setting.
Perhaps the biggest difference from Burns’s other work is that these comics are devoid of multidimensional characters to whom the reader can relate: the protagonist is always inscrutable and the people he meets are all totally off the wall. More than anything else, these comics remind me of Daniel Clowes’s Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron: they’re a sort of humour comics that above all seem to aim for entertaining, unexpected weirdness. In other words, a lot of odd stuff happens and, apart from some bits and pieces of social commentary, there isn’t much more to it than simple amusement.
And these comics are amusing; they’re full of wonderfully weird ideas, memorable characters, snappy dialogue and, of course, great artwork. It’s definitely interesting to see Burns do something so cartoonish and absurd, and I enjoy the occasional moments that are viscerally disturbing. However, with the exception of “Love in Vein” (perhaps not coincidentally the newest comic in the collection), the stories feel a bit half-baked, with their endings in particular coming off a bit flat. Overall, as a Burns fan I’m glad I’ve read it, and I’ll probably come back to it one day, but I can’t say it’s essential reading. Fun, but nothing profound. More than anything, I left this collection feeling glad that Burns moved away from this type of work into the area where he excels.
*This volume collects the following comics:
- “Robot Love” (6 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1983)
- “Dead Meat” (8 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1983)
- “Living in the Ice Age” (20 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1984)
- “Bone Voyage” (36 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1985)
- “Love in Vein” (9 pages; originally published in first collected edition of El Borbah comics, which was titled Hard-Boiled Defective Stories and was put out by Pantheon in 1988)
Nonetheless, I’m too big of a Charles Burns fan to resist the temptation. I count both of his complete long-form works – Black Hole (1995–2005) and Last Look (2010–2014) – among my absolute favourite comics, loving them for their complex, believable characters and their use of weird genre elements to explore relatable human anxieties. What’s more, the first and second volumes of Burns’s currently ongoing series, Dédales (2019–), are very promising and mine a similar vein.
My first dive into Burns’ back catalogue was Big Baby, which collects comics from 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1992, and which clearly shows Burns developing his trademark blend of strange horror and compelling human drama. Although the publication period of the El Borbah comics overlaps with that of the Big Baby strips, this is overall older work,* and it frankly feels completely different from any other Burns that I’ve read.
Even a short outline of El Borbah’s basic premise is enough to make it clear that it’s worlds away from Black Hole: these five comics* follow a private investigator who dresses like a Mexican masked wrestler and uses his superhuman strength and straight-talking take-no-shit attitude to solve mysteries in a decaying futuristic metropolis populated by robots, mutants, heartless capitalists, mad scientists and perverse cultists. It’s very much a noir homage, taking all the tropes of that genre (right down to the style of dialogue) and placing them in a twisted, outlandish, dystopian setting.
Perhaps the biggest difference from Burns’s other work is that these comics are devoid of multidimensional characters to whom the reader can relate: the protagonist is always inscrutable and the people he meets are all totally off the wall. More than anything else, these comics remind me of Daniel Clowes’s Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron: they’re a sort of humour comics that above all seem to aim for entertaining, unexpected weirdness. In other words, a lot of odd stuff happens and, apart from some bits and pieces of social commentary, there isn’t much more to it than simple amusement.
And these comics are amusing; they’re full of wonderfully weird ideas, memorable characters, snappy dialogue and, of course, great artwork. It’s definitely interesting to see Burns do something so cartoonish and absurd, and I enjoy the occasional moments that are viscerally disturbing. However, with the exception of “Love in Vein” (perhaps not coincidentally the newest comic in the collection), the stories feel a bit half-baked, with their endings in particular coming off a bit flat. Overall, as a Burns fan I’m glad I’ve read it, and I’ll probably come back to it one day, but I can’t say it’s essential reading. Fun, but nothing profound. More than anything, I left this collection feeling glad that Burns moved away from this type of work into the area where he excels.
*This volume collects the following comics:
- “Robot Love” (6 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1983)
- “Dead Meat” (8 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1983)
- “Living in the Ice Age” (20 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1984)
- “Bone Voyage” (36 pages; originally published in Heavy Metal in 1985)
- “Love in Vein” (9 pages; originally published in first collected edition of El Borbah comics, which was titled Hard-Boiled Defective Stories and was put out by Pantheon in 1988)
April 25, 2020
L'ultima graphic novel di Charles Burns letta in passato è stata "X'ed out". Non mi aveva entusiasmato, visto le due misere stelle lasciate qua su goodreads e amari ricordi una volta chiuso il volume.
Però do sempre molte chances all'autore, così da quando mi aveva rapito con Skin Deep e corteggiato con Big Baby, altri due suoi volumi in mio possesso.
con "El Borbah" devo dire che tutto è andato alla grande. Insomma: Un wrestler detective cazzuto che non le manda a dire a nessuno. Citando una breve ma veritiera recensione già presente "c'è altro da aggiungere?"
In questo caso le stelle sono pari alle storie che mi sono piaciute presenti nel libro e si accendevano ogni volta che le finivo (come la spia della benzina della mia macchina): Quattro su cinque. Trame che oscillano tra il noir e la fantascienza e finali che ti fanno esclamare un bel "Ma porco due per due", come il protagonista.
Parliamo anche di vignette realizzate a metà degli anni '80: leggere qualcosa di simile in quel periodo, illustrato in una maniera così creepy e inquietante, doveva essere una bella novità. (Peccato che in quel periodo ero appena nato. L'importante è trovarsi).
Quattro stelle belle piene e che che probabilmente non bastano, visto l'epilogo sulla provenienza del nome e dell'idea del personaggio. In quanto da bambino in quel di Seattle negli anni '60 Burns vedeva gli incontri di wrestling e di quanto ne era rimasto impresso. Specie dopo quando, abitando in California, scoprì la lotta messicana e i vari lottatori con queste maschere.
Da fan di questa disciplina, non potevo che restare estasiato di questa chicca e di questa combo "Wrestler/detective", specie in questo periodo dove ho provvisoriamente finito il filone dei libri a tema gialli & simili da leggere.
Anche se la stazza di "El Borbah" è completamente l'opposta di quella di un noto "folletto di San Diego mascherato" che ha influenzato molti ragazzini (e fatto rivivere ai più grandi ricordi quando militava nella WCW anche senza maschera), mi viene spontaneo cantare "Booyaka Booyaka ...What you gonna do when we come for you?"
Piccola chicca riguardante l'autore: Ho nominato Seattle, la musica...da amante del grunge, indovinate un po' chi ha realizzato la copertina per l'album "Sub Pop 200", dell'omonima casa discografica che ha dato vita a molti gruppi di quel periodo?
March 2, 2024
El Borbah collects some of Charles Burns' earliest comic strips originally published in Heavy Metal. Despite how early into his career he was at this point, Burns' cartooning is as evocative as his later works demonstrating just how matured his craft was from the onset. There's a bit less use of blacks here than in his more seminal works like Black Hole, but the sharp, bold lines with intense contrasts are all vividly realized here. Five strips populate this collection, all centered around the private investigator known as El Borbah who rocks a wrestling costume while he takes on jobs involving cults, body mutilation, mind control plots, blackmail and all manner of nefarious characters. The surreal, whimsical aspects aren't as refined here as they do get in his later works, but the stuff here was still a blast. I wouldn't expect the textured, metaphor-heavy storytelling one expects from Burns' work as much of the stories in El Borbah can be categorized as pulpy tales crafted using a stream-of-consciousness approach. There isn't anything really interesting with respect to characters or plot here to keep these stories feeling memorable, but as a sampling of Burns' earlier attempts at surrealism, these were still fairly engaging.
April 5, 2018
Early Charles Burns collected. It's offbeat, bizarre, on the edge of good taste. A private dick who wears a Mexican wrestling match investigates a variety of cases - the stories are all entertaining. It's no Black Hole, but it's creepy fun. The art's quite good; not up to Burns' current levels, but still better than most, and still very twisted.
May 14, 2023
This comic is CURE FOR DEPRESSION. I've gotten great laughs with comics before, but this is another level. The drawings are great too and so is the plot. First story is kinda rough around the edges, you can tell the style of El Borbah hadn't fully shaped yet but it's pretty short, and from the second story onwards it's El Borbah in its purest form. Brilliant
July 5, 2017
Simple yet weird tales in the whole lot weirder shape. Not that I didn't expect that from Burns. Maybe it's just time that works on his disadvantage. El Borbah is kidna like Hellboy - phisically strong detective, conducting investigations in the land of strangeness.
March 1, 2018
A detective in Andre the Giant attire and a Mexican mask takes on weird cases. The art once again is great but the dialogue and character theme reminds me of Strong Bad on the Wii Entertainment System.
Although these comics came out before the Wii, still... Very interesting from Charles Burns.
Although these comics came out before the Wii, still... Very interesting from Charles Burns.
May 13, 2020
Found this thing at a store that sells junk. Pretty sure they didn't know what they had. Stopped reading comic books decades ago. This got me back into comic books. Weird, strange, dope a** art, crazy ridiculous funny stories.
October 17, 2023
This book is a perfect introduction to the strange, hilarious, bizarre work of Charles Burns. His precisely inked art and brilliant character designs are outstanding and these El Borbah stories are simultaneously tribute and satire. Comics just don’t get better or more original than this.
May 29, 2018
A republishing of Burns work from RAW and Heavy Metal. A Classic, I recommend this to anyone.
December 1, 2018
King of beers!
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