The Panic Fables

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781620555378 Author(s): Alejandro Jodorowsky Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2017 Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company Pages: 304

Description: The complete series of filmmaker Alejandro JodorowskyA?s spiritual comics, translated into English for the first timeA?� Contains all 284 of JodoA?s Panic Fables comics, published weekly from 1967 to 1973 in Mexico CityA?s El Heraldo newspaperA?� Includes an introduction describing how the Panic Fables came to beA?� Explains how he incorporated Zen teachings, initiatory wisdom, and sacred symbology into his Panic Fables, as well as himself as one of the charactersIn 1967, in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political A?black listA? in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled, Alejandro Jodorowsky decided to pursue a new form of artistic expression to earn his living: comics. Working with his friend Luis Spota, the editor of the cultural section of the newspaper El Heraldo de MA?©xico, Jodo initially planned 3 monthsA? worth of weekly comics, which he would draw himself. However, his A?Panic FablesA?--named after his early A?60s avant-garde theater movement in Paris--were met with such insatiable popularity that he continued the series for six and a half years, from June 1967 until December 1973.Appearing for the first time in English, this book presents all 284 of JodorowskyA?s Panic Fables in full color, along with an introduction by the author. He reveals how his first comics reflected his pessimism about the future and the meaning of life, the negativity of which soon exhausted him. He realized he needed to show the positivity that he encountered in life, and thus, little by little, he began incorporating Zen teachings, initiatory wisdom, and sacred symbology into his Panic Fables. Through this transformation and the outpouring of support from his devoted readers, many of whom cite the Panic Fables