RIP Moebius

[Compound]

No, not from the Matrix...

French comic-book artist and designer Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, died Saturday aged 74 after a long illness, an associate and work colleague said.


Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was one of France's leading cartoonists who also found fame in Japan and the United States.


Born at Nogent-sur-Marne east of Paris on May 8, 1938, he began after art school training as an illustrator for advertisers and the fashion industry before turning to comic strips.
He found fame when he created the Lieutenant Blueberry western character and adopted the pseudonym Moebius for illustrations of science fiction books and magazines.


As well as being published in top French magazines, he worked with Japanese manga artists and co-produced an adventure of US comic-book superhero The Silver Surfer with Stan Lee.


Giraud also contributed to a number of blockbuster movies, and in 2010 France's Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art staged a major retrospective of his work.

I've put this here as aside from his comic work, Moebius also helped with designs for a number of movies among them Alien, one of the cancelled versions of Dune, Willow, Tron, The Fifth Element and many others.

[Thrifty]

Fuck that guy.  He still owed me 10 bucks.

[Johnny Unusual]

Some Moebius picks











I've never actually read any workd by Moebius, but whenever I see his art, I'm always struck by how he can seemingly create not just an alien world in his art, but an alien culture.