Black Hole - Charles Burns

Black Hole
Charles Burns

Jonathan Cape, 2005
‎368 pages
9780224077781
3.05 x 17.02 x 23.62 cm

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back.