Career
Comics Illustration Burns" high-profile illustrations include work for the Iggy People’s album Brick by Brick. His art was also licensed by The Coca-Cola Company to illustrate product and advertising material for their failed Oklahoma Soda product. More recently, he has worked on advertising campaigns for Altoids and portrait illustrations for The Believer.
In the early 1990s, his Dogboy stories were adapted by Music Television as a live-action serial for Liquid Television.
In 1991, choreographer Mark Morris commissioned him to create illustrations that were then used as a basis for his version of Tchaikovsky"s The Nutcracker, calling it The Hard Nut. Burns"s style was a source of inspiration for Martin Ander"s artwork for Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson"s solo project