‘An instant classic from a master of the form’
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The beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole returns with an arresting story of an artist's obsessions

As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make home movies in their yards, coaxing their friends into starring as victims of grisly murders and smearing lipstick on them to simulate blood. Now an aspiring filmmaker, he, Jimmy and new girl in town Laurie – his reluctant muse – set off to a remote cabin in the woods.

Armed with an old 16-millimetre camera, they film a true sci-fi horror movie where humans are born of disembodied alien wombs, a homage to Brian's favourite movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams – both his damsel in distress and his saviour.

Final Cut blurs the line between dreams and reality, imagination and perception in this astonishing look at what it truly means to express oneself through art.

"Black Hole is best graphic novel of the year... One of the most stunning graphic novels yet published" - TIME

"Charles Burns' comics are fluid, smooth and as solidly built as a vintage TV set, but they shudder with the chill of the uncanny" - New York Times

"The confidence with which Burns positions himself within the larger map of other writing and art is entirely earned" - New Statesman

"Sugar Skull is one of the most vividly drawn and painfully and honest expositions of male guilt I’ve ever read" - Observer