The Panic Fables - Mystic Teachings and Initiatory Tales - Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Panic Fables: Mystic Teachings and Initiatory Tales by Alejandro Jodorowsky / ISBN 9781620555378 / A 288-page paperback, about 8.5 x 11 inches, from Park Street Press  *** The complete series of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s spiritual comics, translated into English for the first time • Contains all 284 of Jodo’s Panic Fables comics, published weekly from 1967 to 1973 in Mexico City’s El Heraldo newspaper • Includes an introduction describing how the Panic Fables came to be • Explains how he incorporated Zen teachings, initiatory wisdom, and sacred symbology into his Panic Fables, as well as himself as one of the characters In 1967, in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political “black list” in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled, Alejandro Jodorowsky decided to pursue a new form of artistic expression to earn his living: comics. Working with his friend Luis Spota, the editor of the cultu