Infected or dirty, it gets under your skin. How did you feel when you were reading Black Hole? Was this the author's intent?Ĭonfused, grossed out, concerned. This generation also does not have the "free love" attitude that carried from the sixties into the seventies, so perhaps the STD would be less widespread.Ĥ. What if these events had occurred to teenagers now? How would they react?Īrguably, kids have more awareness about STDs and more access to information on the Internet, so a widespread STD such as Bug would be less likely to occur. The 1970s culture was full of drugs and sex, the perfect atmosphere for Burns to use to comment on what was going on with teenagers then.ģa. It’s less relatable to people of Generation Y. Parents are more involved this generation and there's arguably more societal pressure to go to college and get a job. Why was Black Hole set in the 1970s? What commentary is made on the generation? Yearbooks are not representative of who people are/were inside and what they do.ģ. The pictures are frozen, posed, and superficial, only representing the surface of who these kids are. Even the kids who don’t have the Bug still have things going on behind the scenes. The front and back cover feature before (normal) and after (infected) pictures, a representation that nothing is simple and these aren’t just happy teenagers. Trashing the house later in the book means the infected are recreating an atmosphere more like their home into the woods. It is where they felt they should be, the woods are a representation of their choice to banish themselves from society. Those who are infected with Bug are sent to the woods where they can hide in peace and be independent and isolated. Here are the questions and answers that were discussed at the graphic novel book club at Koelbel on August 29th. Burns is much like the other author/illustrators we've read ( Mike Mignola, Jeff Smith) their graphic novel(s) took years to complete, but turned out to be a critically acclaimed work of art. It's also a great book club choice if I do say so myself because some plot elements are ambiguous and there are symbols and motifs on every page.
This is the most adult graphic novel we've read so far, at least from a surface viewpoint.
Sex, drugs, STDs, sex, and drugs are abound. The drawing style is almost instantly recognizable to the point that he has regular gigs drawing covers for magazines and advertisements.īlack Hole is set in Seattle in the 1970s and chronicles the lives of four teenagers. Burns' beautifully illustrated work took him ten years to complete and it shows. Have you ever flipped through a graphic novel and said, "WHOOOAAA, what's going on in that panel?" Every other page or so of Black Hole is a "WHOOOAAA" page.
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