Jodorowsky's Sunday comics

Above, a little girl asks, "Dad, What is liberty?" The father, a big man in orange, responds: "It is knowing oneself and acting in accordance with what one is." The artist is Alejandro Jodorowsky. He drew it for publication for January 14, 1968, in the Mexico City newspaper El Heraldo.

Via Fimoculous, via Technoccult, via Arthur magazine founder Jay Babcock, here's a blog that posted Jodorowsky's Sunday newspaper comics from the late 1960s. I'm eager to examine each one.

The maestro's inclination toward Zen is evident in the last posted comic, in which the speaker, driving through a heavy rain, completes the strip: "Do not allow fear to hold you back; always finish what you start."

Check out Babcock's interview with Jodoroswky here. "Energy is coming because I will die very soon," the maestro says in response to a question about how he gets so much done. "I am old. I have so many things to do, so every day I get quicker, in order to do them! I don’t want to die without doing everything I wanted to do."

* Previously, "Defend when attacked: Zen meets Mexico, D.F."