He might not be big to everyone, but if you were a fan of midnight movies in 1970s New York, Alejandro Jodorowsky is probably your personal god, having directed the acid western El Topo and surrealist masterpiece The Holy Mountain. The octogenarian filmmaker and theatre director has had a wide-ranging and somewhat inconsistent career (he made no films for 23 years from 1990-2013), but has been a more or less regular comic creator since his first published work, Anibal 5, in 1966. Since then, Jodorowsky has produced many strange and wonderful sci-fi and fantasy books, possibly the most famous being Incal, illustrated by the legendary artist Jean Giraud aka Moebius. Widely praised as one of the greatest comics ever produced, the story spawned a trilogy of books and created the "Jodoverse", the fictitious universe in which many of the writer's stories take place. Jodorowsky's comics have also had an unintentional effect on other people's films, too: he once tried to sue The Fifth Element's director Luc Besson, claiming that he stole parts of the story and visuals from The Incal. He didn't have much of a leg to stand on, though, as Jodorowsky's collaborator Moebius did work as a contributing artist on the film...
