Charles Burns: 100% Noir

At L’Alliance New York, **Charles Burns: 100% Noir** frames the cartoonist’s work through the visual language of noir and the moral pressure it puts on everyday life. Burns appears in person, placing his drawings and graphic narratives in conversation with the traditions they borrow from and resist. For New York audiences, the event reads as part of the city’s long dialogue between comics, film, and literary crime fiction. The critical takeaway is simple: noir here functions less as style than as a way of thinking about control, desire, and consequence.