The Invisiblesby Grant Morrison is the other work of post-modern magick on my list, a story of “reality terrorists” in a struggle against a totalitarian conspiracy from outside of spacetime.
One of the central arcs of the series is a guided visual tour of the Tree of Life, which earned Promethea a place on our Temple’s recommended reading list for students of Qabalah. Prometheaby Alan Moore is a masterwork of myth and storytelling that, along the way, provides considerable insight into occult topics like the Tarot, ceremonial magick, the Qabalah, the astral plane, and the Apocalypse, among other things. Bluefluke does a marvelous job of distilling the essence of post-modern magick into an illustrated “instruction manual” useful for novices and offering new perspective to experienced practitioners. The Psychonaut Field Manualby Bluefluke is the only practical, instructional comic on my list: A wonderfully comprehensive and compact introduction to the principles of chaos magick (heavily flavored, as it often is, by Western Occultism) in narrative graphic form. Steve is a founder and lead minister of the Temple of Witchcraft and is the manager of Copper Cauldron Publishing, an imprint for Neopagan and New Age books. A long-time comic book reader and collector, he is a designer and writer of tabletop roleplaying games, including the comic book superhero games Mutants & Masterminds and Icons Superpowered Roleplaying. He is also a staff designer for Green Ronin Publishing, a game publisher based in Seattle. I asked six occultists and/or Pagans to give me their top five recommendations that they thought other occultists would enjoy. However, I wanted to see which other graphic novels and comic books would be suggested for the occultist. This opened a gateway to other graphic novels, many of which are mentioned below by others. I was never really huge into graphic novels until a friend kept urging me to read Promethea. Over the years I’ve met many occultists and pagans who are immensely into graphic novels and comic books.
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