Since the dawn of humanity, there have been individuals who want to mess around with Hidden Powers - with the Occult. Some were Mystics, some were Scientists, some were Charlatans. Some were Powerful, some were Wretched. All were pretty bonkers. From Dr. Dee to Kenneth Anger, from Mother Shipton to Madam Blavatsky, from Isaac Newton to David Bowie - centuries of eccentric, bizarre lives. Kevin Jackson and Hunt Emerson have made over 100 pages of comics dealing with the Lives of the Great Occultists. Over 40 Occultists in all, including Faust, Giordano Bruno, Strindberg, Isobel Gowdie, Kircher, William Blake, PL Travers, WB Yeats, Jack Parsons, and - repeatedly - Aleister Crowley. The comics are factual, and very funny.
" Nonsense is nonsense but the history of nonsense is science." —Gershom Scholem
"Entertaining in both the information given and how those details are presented. Jackson and Emerson seem to have had a blast, showing once again that the best approach to this stuff is with a big sense of humor." —Aug Stone, The Comics Journal
"Lives of the Great Occultistsis not only a primer on the history of western occultism. It’s not just a very funny comic, it’s also a perfect introduction to the work of a great British cartoonist and an intriguing writer." —Peter Duncan, Down the Tubes
There is always interest in the Occult.
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