Mostly for Chris

[archangelbebop]

This guys's impact, and by extension John Lennon's, on the sci-fi things I love is pretty impressive. I love creative polymaths.

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[silver_tusk]

By coincidence I just added El Topo to my Netflix queue an hour or so ago, had been discussing it with somebody after class last week. Haven't seen any Jodorowsky at all, but the way it was described made it sound like a good place to start.

[archangelbebop]

Yeah, I had only heard the guy's name in passing a long time ago in connection with comic artist Seriously, get your hands on Arzach or Airtight Garage (this last being a space opera featuring Jerry Cornelius from the Michael Morecock's work, which was the main inspiration for bisexual Captain Jack in Dr. Who). Or just look up the Starwatcher pics on the internet

[archangelbebop]

Goddamn mistyped html links. Here's Giraud's wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud... )

[archangelbebop]

And seriously, buy it buy it buy it: http://www.amazon.com/Moebius-Airtight-Garage-Graphic-novel/dp/087135280X

If for no other reason than it's a historical relic of the first open source creative project (Moorcock, whose name I accidentally Freudian-spelled up above, encouraged other artists and writers to take swings at Jerry Cornelius. Even though Moorcock has since rescinded this, Cornelius keeps showing up in sci-fi work, like Dr. Who. Even though I've never found any official reference to this by the Dr. Who people, it's kind of obvious. "Ambiguously sexual immortal time-traveling James Bond secret agent? Like the one in those British sci fi books you are just the right age to have read as a child? The devil you say!")