This week I read the collection of Charles Burns’ Big Baby comics from the 80s and early 90s. Three horror stories centred around a freaky looking (but sweet) little boy called Tony Delmonto. I’d read one of them, ‘Blood Club’ several years ago and always remembered it as being very affecting, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to read more of Burns’ work. But I’m so glad I did, as Big Baby is just brilliant. Genuinely frightening and disturbing yet moving and funny at the same time, for all the molemen, eyeballs and ghosts in these comics there are also a lot of very human issues running through them, of violence, loss of inocence and fear of sex.

I’m starting to discover that I really like horror comics. I hate horror movies, I’ve always said I don’t enjoy feeling scared. But quivering as Tony watches a moleman emerge from his neghbour’s garden was absolutely thrilling!