Charles Burns profiled by Philly Inquirer

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Charles Burns doesn't lock his monsters away in the closet.
They're out there in plain view in the artist's Northern Liberties living room. On one shelf scores of ghastly figurines look as if they roared straight out of a Godzilla movie, while fearsome Japanese robots stand ready for battle across the way.
They're all over Burns' richly detailed drawings, whose woodcut-like precision is familiar not only to alt-comic fans, but also to anyone who's seen his Altoids ads, album covers (Iggy Pop's Brick by Brick, among others), or portraits for the literary magazine The Believer.

I just got the collected Black Hole. Had it come yesterday, I could have included it in my latest batch of graphic novel reviews. Oh well. I'll get it in the next batch.