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Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir, which he used for his Western-themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among oth…
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Born 8 May 1938 · Died 10 March 2012 · Q309240
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When I first saw the work of 'Mœbius' – a.k.a. 'Gir', both noms de plume of Jean Giraud – his fresh science-fiction and fantasy comic art forever altered my perception of the comic medium.
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“I read [Métal Hurlant] over and over and envied the French because they had everything I dreamed of in comics – beautifully drawn, visionary and literate comics, for adults. I wanted to make comics like that when I grew up.”
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“When I first saw the work of 'Mœbius' – a.k.a. 'Gir', both noms de plume of Jean Giraud – his fresh science-fiction and fantasy comic art forever altered my perception of the comic medium.”
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“France has lost one of its best known artists in the world. In Japan, Italy, in the United States he is an incredible star who influenced world comics. Mœbius will remain part of the history of drawing, in the same right as Dürer or Ingres. He was an incredible producer, he said he wanted to show what eyes do not always see.”
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“The great Moebius died today, but the great Mœbius is still alive. Your body died today, your work is more alive than ever.”
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“He's a unique talent endowed with an extraordinary visionary imagination that's constantly renewed and never vulgar. Moebius disturbs and consoles. He has the ability to transport us into unknown worlds where we encounter unsettling characters. My admiration for him is total. I consider him a great artist, as great as Picasso and Matisse.”
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“I fell out of love with American comics, lost interest in the super-hero subject matter, was more interested in the fantasy I saw in the European art.”
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“Yes, she had cooperated in a truly engaged manner. She started at the crack of dawn, and only went home in the evening, after the whole team had stopped working.”
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“I will finish the Blueberry series, I will finish the John Difool [Incal] series and then I”
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“I started the story all by myself, but after a week, I had only finished half a plate, and aside from being soaked with my sweat, it was a complete disaster. So Joseph went on to do the penciling, whereas I did the inks.”
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Artnet news: Jean Giraud (Moebius) Major Fatal, Le Garage Hermétique #1 Preparatory Drawing Original Art Group of 2 (Les Humano... (Total: 2 Original Art)
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After the umpteenth postponement of the release, translator Edward Gauvin, stumbled upon that restarted discussion on the Reddit newsite, and took it upon himself to clarify the reasons for the continuous release delays
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That he, together with the two Blueberry creators, tried to save it by putting up his own money as well when the project was falling apart due to arguments about funding among European/American would-be producers – to no
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Awarded Best foreign work published in Spain for Arzach (2012).
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Died 2012-03-10.
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Conducting extensive in-depth interviews with the artist throughout this period of time with approximate two-decade intervals, which resulted in three consecutive, chronologically organized interview books, Mister Mœbius
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Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2011).
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Awarded Knight of the National Order of Merit (2011).
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(OCLC 887535650), augmented with Pettigrew's 2000 Mister Gir & Mike S
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To stave off blindness in his left eye, and it was mainly for this reason that Giraud increasingly concentrated on creating single-piece art, both as "Gir" and as "Mœbius", on larger canvases on either commission basis o
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1994: Blueberry – Documentary by Christophe Heili (Cendranes Films for Canal+/TVCF, October, 27 min
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Giraud said, "Blueberry is in some ways the 'sponsor' of Moebius, for years now
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DVD; The Fifth Element 2015 4K Blu-ray, 18 min
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“Blueberry is in some ways the”
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No longer continued to produce comics and/or art on a commercial base, but rather on a project and/or personal base, usually under the aegis of his own publishing house Mœbius Production
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By a collective of Parisian bookstores) for the Mœbius transe forme art book in the "Bande Dessinée" category
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By Jan Kounen, as Blueberry: L'expérience secrète
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And 1998 respectively, after which he concentrated on Blueberry's "OK Corral" cycle, started in 1994 upon his return to France
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Awarded Sproing Award (2000).
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“I have said for years now — in fact, probably since 2000, when Charles Schulz left us, and there were four — that the three greatest living cartoonists are Robert Crumb, Jacques Tardi, and Jean Giraud. In the last 48 hours, that number has shrunk to two. – Salut, Jean!”
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Awarded Yellow Kid Award (1999).
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Was the "biography written by Giraud on Mœbius & vice versa", but constituted what Sadoul in his 2015 edition has coined a "snapshot in time", aside from the obvious fact that the last phase of the artist's career was no
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Due to the fact that it was not nearly as commercially successful as Blueberry had been
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Giraud's illustrations appeared in a soft cover edition of Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia, published by the Nuages Gallery in Milan
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Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (1998).
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Awarded Gouden Olifant voor gehele oeuvre (1998).
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Took time off to write his autobiography, Moebius-Giraud: Histoire de mon double
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Awarded Jack Kirby Hall of Fame (1997).
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The company was renamed Moebius Production – singular, despite the occasional and erroneous use of the plural, even by the company itself
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“s director Tony Scott, that it was he who had written in the dialog as an homage to the artist on behalf of his brother Ridley, a Mœbius admirer, and not (uncredited) script doctor Quentin Tarentino (known for infusing his works with pop culture references) as he was previously led to believe. An amused Giraud quipped,”
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Included as bonus for the boxed, limited edition of the artbook "Blueberry's" (ISBN 2908706024)
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Featuring characters and imagery from all over his Mœbius universe, though his Western work was excluded
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His graphic novel short, "Cauchemar Blanc", was cinematized by Mathieu Kassovitz, winning Kassovitz (but not Giraud) two film awards
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His first true family operated business without any other third-party participation according to Giraud, with the 1525-copy limited mini art portfolio "Mockba - carnet de bord" becoming the company's first recorded publi
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As writer (leaving the artwork firstly to William Vance and subsequently to Michel Rouge), wanting to pay homage to the legacy of his late writing partner by creating a story in his spirit, or as Giraud had put it, "{A]n
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Marked the beginning of Giraud's third and last movie period
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Giraud took over the scripting of the main series, the last outing of which, "Apaches", released in 2007, became the last title Giraud created for the parent publisher
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“In all his drawings, Mœbius demonstrates a command of many disciplines in art. He is a master draftsman, a superb artist, and more: his vision is original and strong. Since first seeing the Mœbius illustrations in Heavy Metal years ago, I have been impressed and affected by his keen and unusual sense of design, and the distinctive way in which he depicts the fantastic. perhaps what strikes me most of all his work is its sheer beauty–a beauty that has always given me great pleasure.”
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Giraud sold his shares in Les Humanoïdes Associés to Fabrice Giger, thereby severing his formal ownership ties with that publishing house as well, though it remained the regular publisher of his Mœbius work from the Méta
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Giraud was chosen, among 11 other winners of the prestigious Grand Prix of the Angoulême Festival, to illustrate a postage stamp set issued on the theme of communication
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Which resulted in the birth of second son Raphaël in 1989
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Awarded Inkpot Award (1986).
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Charlier disclosed how American actor Martin Kove had actually already been signed to play the titular role – with whom Kove shared a remarkable resemblance at the time – for the first two early-1980s attempts, which wer
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Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1985).
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Essentially the US branch of Gentiane/Aedena with the same goals, resulting in the release of, among others, the extremely limited art portfolio La Cité de Feu, a collaborative art project of Giraud with Geoff Darrow (se
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When that series was resurrected, left to Colin Wilson and later Michel Blanc-Dumont after the first three original volumes in that series, as well as the Giraud-written, but William Vance-penciled, 1991–2000 intermezzo
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Until late 1984, when the family moved to the United States, where Giraud set up shop first in Santa Monica, and subsequently in Venice and Woodland Hills, California
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Adding philosophically, "The more you free yourself, the more powerless you become
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"Sure, the people who made the movie were inspired by quite a few things from "Arzach"," further explaining that, while the American producers had indeed intended to use the artist's material from the eponymous magazine,
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This time as both concept and storyboard artist
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Awarded Grand prix de la ville d'Angoulême (1981).
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Awarded Special Award of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (1980).
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As an inker on "La longue marche" ("The Long March") painted a slightly different picture though
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By moving himself and his family as far away from Paris as possible in France, and relocated to the small city of Pau at the foothills of the Pyrenees
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Awarded Adamson Awards (1979).
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“You see it everywhere, it runs through so much you can't get away from it.”
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The long-running disagreement Charlier and Giraud had with their publishing house Dargaud over the residuals from Blueberry came to a head
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For the Spanish jeans manufacturer Lois Jeans & Jackets; Aside from being traditionally run as an advertisement in numerous magazines, it was also blown up to gigantic, mural-like dimensions and as posters plastered on w
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During lulls in the pre-production of Jodorowsky's Dune
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“Through Arzach, which dates from 1975, I believe. I only read it in 1980, and it was a big shock. Not only for me. All manga authors were shaken by this work. Unfortunately, when I discovered it, I already had a consolidated style so I couldn't use its influence to enrich my drawing. Even today, I think it has an awesome sense of space. I directed Nausicaä under Mœbius's influence.”
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To the writings of Carlos Castaneda, and having started again with the use of marijuana in the last decade of his life, after a long abstinence – and outside teachers, or "gurus" as he himself had coined them, after his
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Partly because he was tired of the publication pressure he was under in order to produce the series, partly because of an emerging royalties conflict, but mostly because he wanted to explore and develop his "Mœbius" alte
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(see below) – had not, instead plying his trade as a free-lancer, explaining the Jim Cutlass exception
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Truly revived the Mœbius pseudonym for comics, and the very first, 12-page, story he created as such was "Cauchemar Blanc" ("White Nightmare"), published in the magazine L'Écho des savanes, issue 8, 1974
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The couple had two children, Hélène (b:1970) and Julien (b:1972)
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By Charlier (scenario) and Giraud (drawings) for Pilote
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While he was working on the Hachette project, as he did not like "to work on paintings alone all day", and "like an alcoholic needing his alcohol" had to create comics
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At age 16, he enrolled in the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, a college of art and design
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Born 1938-05-08.
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France has lost one of its best known artists in the world. In Japan, Italy, in the United States he is an incredible star who influenced world comics. Mœbius will remain part of the history of drawing, in the same right as Dürer or Ingres. He was an incredible producer, he said he wanted to show what eyes do not always see.
He's a unique talent endowed with an extraordinary visionary imagination that's constantly renewed and never vulgar. Moebius disturbs and consoles. He has the ability to transport us into unknown worlds where we encounter unsettling characters. My admiration for him is total. I consider him a great artist, as great as Picasso and Matisse.
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