Alexandro Jodorowsky's Screaming Planet Vol.1
Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Ground-breaking writer (The Incal, The Metabarons, The White Lama) and cult director (El Topo, Santa Sangre, The Dance of Reality) Alexandro Jodorowsky steps up to the challenge of the short story format.
• In 2013 the planet 261690 JODOROWSKY was named after the writer!
• Several stories have been adapted into the Syfy television series, “Metal Hurlant Chronicles.”
• Featuring multiple US comic book superstars such as Jerome Opena ("Avengers"), Ladronn ("Cable") , JH Williams III ("The Sandman: Overture") and more!
• Jodorowsky received the 2013 International Adamson Award from the Swedish Academy of Comic Art.
• With frequent collaborator Moebius, won the 2001 Haxtur Award for Madwoman of the Sacred Heart
A collection of Sci-Fi short stories all written by Alexandro Jodorowsky ("The Incal", "The Metabarons") and illustrated by talent from various countries and different graphic traditions. The thematic thread of these tales: an asteroid spawned from the destruction of a planet produces sounds (a "howling shriek") which, when crossing an inhabited world, creates a change or imbalance within it…