The next book on Jobs

So much has been written, read and said about Walter Isaacson's best-selling bio of Steve Jobs. But there is another book on the horizon, with a mystical take on the late Apple co-founder.

Part comic book, part fable, The Zen of Steve Jobs is a quirky read. The graphic novel (Wiley; January 2012; $19.95; 80 pages) "reimagines" seminal events in the life of Jobs.

One intriguing slice details Jobs' wilderness years in the mid-1980s, after he was ousted from Apple and founded a struggling NeXT Computer. At that time, Jobs discovered his spiritual side through a friendship with Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist priest.

That friendship is the spine of the book, written by Forbes contributor Caleb Melby and illustrated by JESS3, a creative agency that specializes in data visualization.

The Zen of Steve Jobs is constructed as a visual tribute to Silicon Valley's iconic CEO. The slender, soft-cover book focuses on how Jobs' experience with Buddhism shaped his corporate philosophy and influenced his thoughts on product design and business strategy.