Well, the great news this week is that The Incal - one of his greatest and most influential masterworks - is back in stores for another printing after a limited edition sold out almost instantly last fall, and now you can grab yourself a copy of the sci-fi epic that Mark Millar called ' quite simply one of the most perfect comics ever conceived and probably the most beautiful piece of graphic literature ever drawn.'Written by author and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky - for whom Giraud had done extensive concept art and storyboarding on an aborted Dune movie project - The Incal is not only a marvel of intricate visuals, but also of ideas, set in a vast galactic empire where luminescent aristocrats hiding ugly secrets cavort with dog-headed men deep in the depraved bacchanalia of the Red Ring, technorats roam the garbage plains in terrible swarms that multiply in proportion to your fear, and enormous floating citadels open like flowers into mechanical spiders the size of skyscrapers. BEFORE THE INCAL : FAREWELL, FATHER Foreword by Ladrnn, artist on the upcoming FINAL INCAL I have always said that the book that changed my life was THE.

Jean Giraud) several times before, always lamenting the fact that basically all of his work is out of print the U.S., and expensive if not impossible to get a hold of. We've talked glowingly about the French artist and comics genius Moebius (a.k.a. Taika Waititi is set to co-write and direct an adaptation of The Incal, the sci-fi graphic novel from writer Alejandro Jodorowsky with art by Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius, according to a.

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