Jean Giraud "Moebius" -- RIP

Cornelio Saturday 10 Mar 2012

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) [1] [2] was a French comics artist , working in the French tradition of bandes dessineés . Giraud earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Mœbius , and to a lesser extent Gir , the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings.
Among his most famous creation was the Western comic series " Blueberry " which he cocreated with Jean-Michel Charlier , one of the first Western anti-heroes to appear in comics. Under the pseudonym Moebius he created a wide range of science fiction and and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative and surreal almost abstract style, the most famous of which are Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius , and the The Incal . Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004, and in 1997 Moebius and cocreator Alejandro Jodorowsky sued Luc Besson for using the Incal as inspiration for his movie The Fifth Element , a law suit which they lost. [3]
He died of cancer on 10 March 2012 at age 73 in Paris. [4] [5] [6]

Jean Giraud "Moebius" -- RIP

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