Simplicity, minimalism, and restraint, are not usually words you would associate with a comic written by Alexandro Jodorowsky. The man who usually fills each page of his sci-fi adventures with more ideas than most writers come up with in a lifetime, on this occasion, managed to pare it down to just one. The Eyes of the Cat , his very first work with artist Mœbius, allows the drawing space and time to breath, and the result is much more akin to Mœbius' solo work than their other collaborations (most famously The Incal ). The narrative is straightforward enough; in some future or alien city an eagle soars above the streets looking for a cat at the behest of a blind master, to whom it then returns to with the titular 'eyes of the cat'. What makes this work stand out is how this tale is presented. The art and story split into two separate parts; on the left hand pages is a simple silhouetted image of the master in the window, taking up perhaps a third of the page (and i
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