{"id":30610,"date":"2024-09-27T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30610"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:33:24","slug":"the-eyes-of-the-cat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/09\/27\/the-eyes-of-the-cat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes of the Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Moebius<\/strong> & Jodorowsky<\/strong> (Humanoids)
\nISBN: 978-1-59465-032-1 (HB\/Digital edition) ISBN: 978-1-59465-042-0 (Yellow Edition)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of the world\u2019s greatest comics exponents are cruelly neglected these days. It\u2019s not because they are out of vogue or forgotten, it\u2019s simply that so much of their greatest material lies out of print. This little gem is one of them…<\/p>\n

Born in Tocopilla, Chile in 1929, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky has been a filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, world traveller, philosopher, spiritual guru and comics writer. The controversial creative polymath is known for such films as Fando y Lis<\/strong>, El Topo<\/strong>, The Holy Mountain<\/strong>, Sante Sangre<\/strong>, The Rainbow Thief<\/strong>, The Dance of Reality<\/strong> and others, plus a vast and influential comics output, including Anibal 5<\/em><\/strong> (created whilst living in Mexico), Le Lama blanc<\/em><\/strong>, Aliot<\/em><\/strong>, The Meta-Barons<\/strong>, Borgia<\/strong>, Madwoman of the Sacred Heart<\/strong>, The Son of El Topo<\/strong>, Showman Killer<\/strong>, Knights of Heliopolis<\/strong> and so many more, created with some of South America and Europe\u2019s greatest artists. His decade-long collaboration with Moebius on Tarot-inspired Sci Fi epic The Incal<\/strong> (1981-1989) utterly redefined and reinvented what comics could aspire to and achieve…<\/p>\n

Most widely regarded for his violently surreal avant-garde films, loaded with highly-charged, inspired imagery – blending mysticism and what he terms \u201creligious provocation\u201d – and his spiritually-informed fantasy and science fiction comics tales, Jodorowsky is also fascinated by humanity\u2019s inner realms and has devised his own doctrine of therapeutic healing: Psychomagic<\/em>, Psychogenealogy<\/em> and Initiatic massage<\/em>. He still remains fully engaged and active in all these creative areas to this day and has never stopped creating. Most of his lifelong themes and obsessions are seamlessly wedded together in this glorious re-release of his very first comics collaboration with the creator most inextricably associated with him.<\/p>\n

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was born in the suburbs of Paris on May 8th<\/sup> 1938 and raised by his grandparents after his mother and father divorced in 1941. In 1955, he attended the Institut des Arts Appliqu\u00e9s <\/em>where he became friends with Jean-Claude M\u00e9zi\u00e8res who, at 17, was already selling strips and illustrations to magazines like Coeurs Valliants<\/em><\/strong>, Fripounet et Marisette<\/em><\/strong> and Le Journal de Spirou<\/em><\/strong>. Giraud, apparently, spent most of his college time drawing cowboy comics and left after a year…<\/p>\n

In 1956, he visited Mexico, staying with his mother for eight months before returning to France and a full-time career drawing comics. These were mostly westerns such as Frank et Jeremie<\/em> for Far West<\/em><\/strong> and King of the Buffalo<\/em>, A Giant with the Hurons <\/em>and others for Coeurs Valliants<\/em><\/strong>, all in a style based on French comics legend Joseph Gillain AKA Jij\u00e9. Giraud spent his National Service in Algeria in 1959-1960, where he worked on military service magazine 5\/5 Forces Fran\u00e7aises<\/em><\/strong> and, on returning to civilian life, became Jij\u00e9\u2019s assistant in 1961, working on the master\u2019s long-running (1954-1977) Western epic Jerry Spring<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A year later, Giraud and Belgian writer Jean-Michel Charlier launched the serial Fort Navajo<\/em><\/strong> in Pilote<\/em><\/strong> #210. Remarkably quickly its disreputable, antihero lead character Lieutenant Blueberry<\/em><\/strong> became one of the most popular European strips of modern times. From 1963 to 1964, Giraud produced a number of strips for satire periodical Hara-Kiri<\/em><\/strong> and – keen to distinguish and separate the material from his serious day job – first coined his penname \u201cMoebius\u201d…<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t use it again until 1975 when he joined Bernard Farkas, Jean-Pierre Dionnet and Philippe Druillet – all inspired science fiction fans as the founding fathers of a revolution in narrative graphic arts as created by \u201cLes Humanoides Associes\u201d. Their groundbreaking adult fantasy magazine M\u00e9tal Hurlant<\/em><\/strong> utterly enraptured the comics-buying public and Giraud again sought a discreet creative persona for the lyrical, experimental, soul-searching material he was increasingly driven to produce: series such as The Airtight Garage<\/strong>, The Incal<\/strong> and the mystical, dreamy flights of sheer fantasy contained in Arzach<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

To further separate his creative twins, Giraud worked inks with a brush whilst the futurist Moebius rendered with pens…<\/p>\n

After a truly stellar career which saw him become a household name, both Giraud and Moebius passed away in March 2012.<\/p>\n

As explained in Jodorowsky\u2019s Foreword<\/em>, this magnificently macabre minimalist monument to imagination came about as brief tale in a free, promotional premium \u201cMistral Edition\u201d of M\u00e9tal Hurlant<\/em><\/strong> constituted their very first collaboration – outside the creative furnace that was the pre-production phase of doomed & aborted movie Dune<\/strong>, where they first met. Also included in that imaginative movie production dream-team was Dan O\u2019Bannon, Douglas Trumbull, H.R. Giger and Chris Foss, and some secrets of that time are also shared here.<\/p>\n

Les Yeux du<\/em><\/strong> chat<\/em><\/strong> was realised between 1977 and 1979: a dark fable that is sheer beauty and pure nightmare rendered in stark monochrome and florid expansive grey-tones. Text is spartan and understated: more poetic goad than descriptive excess or expositional in-filling.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a city, a boy at a window, an eagle and a cat. When their lives intersect, shock and horror are the inescapable result…
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\nAvailable in a number of formats since 2011, this is a visual masterpiece no connoisseur of comics can afford to miss.
\n\u00a9 2013 Humanoids, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Moebius & Jodorowsky (Humanoids) ISBN: 978-1-59465-032-1 (HB\/Digital edition) ISBN: 978-1-59465-042-0 (Yellow Edition) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times. Many of the world\u2019s greatest comics exponents are cruelly neglected these days. It\u2019s not because they are out of vogue or forgotten, it\u2019s simply that so much of their greatest material lies … <\/p>\n

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