An odyssey that starts as a simple detective mission and ends up being a spacetime quest to save the cosmos. Moebius' drawings are immaculate throughout, both when dealing with a sprawling metropolis or when traversing the edge of reality itself. Jodorowsky has crafted a story that is straightfor...
This seems targeted at fans of stuff like Heavy Metal, The Fifth Element, or Aeon Flux, the latter two of which this predates by at least a decade. Jodorowsky is typically weird and fantastical, throwing in plenty of drugs, violence, weird sex, and so forth - if I'd read it in middle school I pro...
I'll be processing this one a while. Completely changing the way I think of healing, art and the unconscious mind. His approach to healing takes Marinetti's statement "Poetry is an act" to the most fascinating extreme. His idea of the 'panic party'...the importance of a positive effect of art (so...
“Weird” might be my choice if I had to describe Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Where the Bird Sings Best” in one word. That was my biggest impression, but there are so many dimensions to this “autobiographical novel” that make it unique and at the same time another masterpiece of Latin American literatu...
I was about five or six years old when Cristina came to work as our maid. With my childish eyes I saw her as an old lady, though in fact she was only forty years old; the air, doubly salt-laden from the sea and from the nitrate dust of the desert, had made furrows in her forehead and cheeks. All ...