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Screaming Planet

Out today is a book collection titled Screaming Planet, published by Humanoids. Which I contributed the art for a short story that it contains, titled Eucharist Sun. This is actually my first collaboration with my friend Dave Stewart. This story and many of the others were originally printed in Metal Hurlant quite a few years ago. I believe I was still working on Promethea at the time that I did this.

It was a nice experiment for me, one of my early inking myself gigs. I remember wanting a very organic feel to the drawing, which is not easy to do if you’re working with an inker, so I went for it myself. The results were decent enough and I learned some lessons doing it.

The other thing about this book is that the stories were written by one of the finest comics writers ever, Alejandro Jodorowsky. He is considered by many, one of the premier european comics writers. Many of his english translated books can be found if you dig for them. Or ask your retailer to get them, or go to Amazon. I’ve been a fan of his work for most of my comics reading life, so getting the opportunity to draw a story from him, even a short 10 pages was a thrill for me so early in my career. I certainly hope one day I’ll get another such opportunity, but something grander in size.

He’s also known for his books on metaphysics such as Psychomagic, and his avant-garde film making, El Topo being the most noted, quite an artist, this man.

Below are a few links to learn a little more about the Screaming Planet book. Comic Book Resources has put up jpegs of my story today, so I’ve provided a link to that as well.

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Screaming Planet
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Jodorowsky

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