Alejandro Jodorowsky, Author Editorial Grijalbo (MX) $20 (411p) ISBN 978-970-05-1282-2
This epic family saga, reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia M rquez's Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) in structure and breadth, reads at a breakneck pace. Though ostensibly a novelization of the author's own family history, it is a
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, trans. from the Spanish by Rachael LeValley. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, $19.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-62055-107-3
Paris-based filmmaker (El Topo), comic book author, and psychotherapist Jodorowsky returns to “psychomagic,” a neo-Freudian technique of his own invention first explored in Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy. It aims to...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, Humanoids (www.humanoids.com), $29.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59465-098-7
Avant-garde filmmaker Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) and internationally renowned illustrator Moebius have crafted a graphic tour de force that perfectly fuses their particular sensibilities. Mining Jodorowsky's fascination with religion, mysticism...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky and Nicolas Fructus. Titan, $15.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-78276-139-6
This is the first of three volumes of a violent, surreal space fantasy by filmmaker (El Topo) and comics visionary Jodorowsky. The saga of a super-assassin Showman Killer, bred from birth to care for nothing except payment, kicks off with a fast-movi
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, with Gilles Farcet; trans. from the French by Ariel Godwin. Inner Traditions, $18.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-62055-459-3
Cult film director, comic book writer, puppeteer, tarot card reader; the list goes on when describing Jodorowsky. In this collection of interviews spanning 15 years, readers are confronted not just by Jodorowsky and the many hats he has worn, but by
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, trans. from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam. Restless, $14.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-63206-054-9
Cult filmmaker Jodorowsky’s (El Topo; The Holy Mountain) novel may be the ultimate piece of Jodorowsky arcana, a mind-bending adventure story on par with his wildest cinematic visions. In a South American mining town, a hard-bitten dentist/criminal...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, Author, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Author Editorial Grijalbo (MX) $12.99 (135p) ISBN 978-970-05-1207-5
This surreal fantasy, set in Chile and Peru, is about a woman who turns into a dog. Chilean author Jodorowsky, also author of Donde mejor canta un p jaro (Where a Bird Sings Its Best, see p. 25), uses his fertile imagination to present a mixed...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, trans. from the Spanish by Ariel Godwin. Inner Traditions/Park Street, $24.95 trade paper (418p) ISBN 978-1-62055-281-0
Beginning his unorthodox autobiography in Chile, where he grew up as the child of Russian Jews in exile, writer and filmmaker Jodorowsky sketches the squalor and desperation of his birthplace. It's here that the foundations of his spiritual...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jérémy, trans. from the French by Marc Bourbon-Crook. Statix, $39.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-78773-608-5
Alchemical wonder and arcane magic invigorate this dramatically illustrated synthesis of history and mysticism. Presented as a secret history of the world, the tale’s chronology spans the Age of Versailles to Blitz-era London and is told through the
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