Moebius à Poitiers, en 2008
Photo : PhotoPQR/La Nouvelle République/Dominique Bordier
Personne n’imaginait que cela irait si vite…En le rencontrant il y a un an et demi, quelques semaines avant sa grande exposition à la Fondation Cartier, nous avions découvert un homme gai, pétillant et débordant de projets, vivant démenti aux rumeurs qui couraient sur son état de santé. Certes Jean Giraud parlait de son cancer, mais comme s’il s’agissait d’une vieille connaissance, d’un « maître » avec lequel on pouvait composer… À 72 ans, le dessinateur nous avait bluffé par son énergie, sa disponibilité et son extraordinaire rapidité d’exécution. Installé dans nos locaux pour illustrer le numéro en cours, il y avait réalisé une dizaine de dessins magnifiques en l’espace d’une journée !
Couverture de Télérama, juin 2010
Couverture de Télérama, octobre 2010
Le monde de la bande dessinée vient de perdre l'un de ses géants, sinon "le" dernier des géants d'un certain âge d'or. Jean Giraud, plus connu sous le nom de Moebius, est mort ce samedi 10 mars à l'âge de 73 ans des suites d'une longue maladie.
Dessinateur et scénariste, père entre autres du lieutenant Bluberry, il laisse derrière lui une œuvre monumentale, marquée notamment par un trait d'une prodigieuse aisance et par une inclinaison assumée pour la dualité artistique. Ce n'est pas un hasard si Jean Giraud a mené toute sa carrière en signant avec deux pseudonymes : Gir, avec lequel il a dessiné la série western Blueberry dans une veine réaliste ; et Moebius, versant fantastique de sa personnalité, incarné à travers les personnages d'Arzach, de l'Incal ou encore du Major. La fausse désinvolture de son style a marqué plusieurs générations de dessinateurs qui voyaient en lui la référence ultime.
Jean Giraud naît le 8 mai 1938 à Nogent-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne). Elève de l'Ecole des arts appliqués de Paris, il publie ses premières bandes dessinées dès 1956 dans plusieurs publications pour la jeunesse : Fripounet et Marisette, Ames Vaillantes ou encore Cœurs Vaillants. Au début des années 60, il rencontre Jijé, qui le recrute comme assistant sur un épisode de Jerry Spring. Peu de temps après, le scénariste Jean-Michel Charlier, s'en revenant d'un repérage dans le Nevada pour la série Buck Danny, cherche un dessinateur pour un western qu'il a en tête. Jijé décline l'offre, mais oriente Charlier vers Giraud. En 1963, sort Fort Navajo, la première histoire d'un lieutenant de l'armée américaine au nez cassé et au caractère trempé, Mike "Blueberry" Donovan.
Ce personnage va donner l'occasion à Jean Giraud, qui signe Gir dès le premier épisode, de "faire du cinéma sur papier", comme il l'expliquait au Monde Magazine en octobre 2010 à l'occasion de la rétrospective que lui a consacré la Fondation Cartier : "Le cinéma est le réservoir d'images de Blueberry. (…) Concernant le personnage, je lui ai donné les traits de nombreux acteurs à la mode de films d'action : Belmondo bien sûr, mais aussi Bronson, Eastwood, Schwarzenegger… J'ai même utilisé Keith Richards (le guitariste des Rolling Stones) ou Vincent Cassel (qui a campé le rôle de Blueberry au cinéma). A chaque fois, je rajoutais un nez cassé, ainsi qu'une coupe de cheveux à la Mike Brant ! Beaucoup de réalisateurs m'ont également inspiré. Blueberry doit beaucoup à Sam Peckinpah (La Horde sauvage m'a bouleversé). Il y a aussi du Sergio Leone chez lui. Mais pour ce qui est de son amitié avec les Indiens, je suis plus proche de John Ford qui, toute sa vie, a été écartelé entre le machisme blanc de la conquête de l'ouest et la conscience qu'il avait des minorités opprimées."
Parallèlement à Blueberry, Giraud s'invente très vite un double qu'il appelle Moebius - en référence au ruban du savant Möbius, symbole de l'infini – et avec lequel il va défricher des terres peu explorée dans la bande dessinée, aux confins du rêve et de la science-fiction. Le tournant de cette période est évidemment la création en 1975 du magazine Métal Hurlant, à laquelle il participe aux côtés de Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet et Bernard Farkas. C'est alors la naissance du héros muet Arzach. "A l'époque, Métal Hurlant vivait constamment dans le danger de mourir, racontait encore Moebius au Monde Magazine. Nous ne savions jamais si nous allions sortir le numéro suivant. La garantie de l'étonnement éditorial était notre propre étonnement. D'où ce personnage sans parole ni référence culturelle que je faisais le soir après le boulot – après Blueberry, quoi. C'était une façon d'être provocant."
Pendant des années, Blueberry va être "le sponsor personnel de Mœbius", dixit Gir/Moebius lui-même. Alors que se succèdent les aventures du lieutenant (de plus en plus indiscipliné), l'auteur poursuit ses explorations oniriques, notamment avec la collaboration du scénariste Alexandro Jodorowsky qui crée pour lui le personnage de John Difool.
L'APPEL DU CINÉMA
Entre-temps, le cinéma lui a fait les yeux doux. Avec Jodorowsky, il travaille sur le story-board d'une adaptation de Dune, de Frank Herbert, qui restera à l'état de projet. Ridley Scott lui demande de dessiner les costumes d'Alien et René Laloux de réaliser le story-board des Maîtres du temps. A l'exception d'un court-métrage méconnu (La Planète Encore), et malgré plusieurs projets inachevés de films d'animation (Starwatcher, Le Garage hermétique), Giraud ne deviendra jamais ce qu'il aurait sans doute rêvé d'être également : réalisateur.
"Je ne dirais pas que le cinéma m'a laissé au bord du chemin, disait-il à l'automne 2010. C'est plutôt moi qui l'ai laissé passer. Il est malheureusement difficile d'avoir plusieurs vies simultanément. Faire du Mœbius sans la moindre concession tout en continuant Blueberry demande déjà un investissement interne considérable. Je me tire d'ailleurs le chapeau car j'ai réussi à me trahir sans me quitter… Bref, je n'avais pas de place à accorder au cinéma. Pour se lancer dans le cinéma, il faut être Cortez : brûler ses vaisseaux et ne plus rien avoir d'autre à faire."
Frédéric PotetJean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012)[1][2] was a French comics artist, working in the French tradition of bandes dessinées. 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]
Moebius contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science fiction and fantasy films, including Alien, Willow, and Tron (1982).
He died of cancer on 10 March 2012 at age 73 in Paris.[4][5][6]
Jean Giraud was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris, in 1938.[7] At age 16, he began his only technical training at the Arts Appliqués.[8]
His working methods were also various and adaptable. He drew etchings, white and black illustrations, work in colour of the ligne claire genre, water colours.[9] Giraud's solo Blueberry works were sometimes criticized by fans of the series because the artist dramatically changed the tone of the series as well as the graphic style.[10] However, Blueberry's early success was also due to Giraud's innovations as he did not content himself with following earlier styles, an important aspect of his development as an artist.[11]
To distinguish between work by Giraud and Moebius, Giraud used a brush for his own work and a pen when he signed his work as Moebius. Giraud drew very quickly.[12]
At 18, Giraud was drawing his own comic strip, "Frank et Jeremie" for the magazine Far West. In 1961, Giraud became an apprentice of Jijé, one of the leading comic artists in Europe of the time, and collaborated on an album of Jerry Spring.[8] In 1962 Giraud and writer Jean-Michel Charlier started the comic strip Fort Navajo for Pilote. It was a great hit and continued uninterrupted until 1974.
The Lieutenant Blueberry character, whose facial features were based on those of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, was created by Giraud and Charlier for Fort Navajo, and quickly became its most popular character.[13][14] His adventures as told in the spin-off Western serial Blueberry, are possibly Giraud's best known work in his native France before his later collaborations with Alejandro Jodorowsky. The early Blueberry comics used a simple line drawing style, and standard Western themes and imagery, but gradually Giraud developed a darker and grittier style. Especially after censorship laws were loosened in 1968 the strip became more explicitly adult, and also adopted a wider range of thematics. Giraud left the series in 1973 leaving the artwork to Colin Wilson, and late Michel Blanc-Dumont.
When Charlier, Giraud's colaborator on Blueberry died in 1989, Giraud assumed responsibility for the scripting of the series.
The Moebius pseudonym, which Giraud came to use for his science fiction and fantasy work, was born in 1963.[8] In a satire magazine called Hara-Kiri, Moebius did 21 strips in 1963–64 and then disappeared for almost a decade.
In 1975 he revived the Moebius pseudonym and with Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Bernard Farkas, he became one of the founding members of the comics art group "Les Humanoides Associes" with whom he started the magazine Métal Hurlant, the magazine known in the English speaking world as "Heavy Metal" . Moebius' famous serial The Airtight Garage and his groundbreaking Arzach both began in Métal Hurlant.[15]
Giraud's prestige in France – where comics are held in high artistic regard – is enormous; In 1988 Moebius 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.[16] Under the names Giraud and Gir, he also wrote numerous comics for other comic artists like Auclair and Tardi.
In 1981 he started his famous L'Incal series in collaboration with Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Moebius contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science fiction films, including Alien by Ridley Scott, Tron by Disney, and for Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune, which was however abandoned in pre-production.
In 1982 he collaborated with director René Laloux to create the science fiction feature-length animated movie Les Maîtres du temps (released in English as Time Masters) based on a novel by Stefan Wul. In 1988 Moebius worked on the American comic character The Silver Surfer with Stan Lee for a special two-part limited series. Giraud also was a friend of manga author and anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
From December 2004 to March 2005, the two of them shared an exhibition at La Monnaie in Paris which showcased work by both artists.[17] He even named his daughter after Nausicaä from Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.[18][19]
Jean Giraud drew the first of the two-part last volume of the XIII series titled La Version Irlandaise (The Irish Version) from a script by Jean Van Hamme, to accompany the second part by the regular team Jean Van Hamme–William Vance, Le dernier round (The Last Round). Both parts were published on the same date (13 November 2007).[20]
From 2000 to 2010, Moebius created and published his series Inside Moebius (its title is in English though the books are in French), six hardcover volumes totaling 700 pages. In these books he appears in cartoon form as both creator and protagonist, trapped within the story alongside his younger self and several longtime characters such as Blueberry, Arzak (the latest re-spelling of the Arzach character's name), Major Grubert (from The Airtight Garage), and others. Moebius subsequently decided to revive the Arzak character in an elaborate new adventure series, the first volume of which, Arzak L'Arpenteur, appeared in 2010. He also began new works in the Airtight Garage series with a volume entitled Le Chasseur Deprime.
Jean Giraud has been active in the comics scene since the 1960s. Those works for which English translations have been published are noted as such; their respective pages describe this further.
As Jean Giraud
- Blueberry (29 volumes, English translation, 1965 - ), artist (all vol), writer vol 25-29
- Jim Cutlass (7 volumes, 1979–1999), artist vol. 1, writer vol 2-7
- XIII (volume 18, La Version irlandaise in 2007), artist
- Marshall Blueberry (3 volumes, 2000), writer
- Le Cristal Majeur (3 volumes, 1986–1990), writer (artist: Bati), Paris: Dargaud
As Moebius
- Le Bandard fou (English translation, 1975), writer & artist
- Arzach (English translation, 1976), writer & artist
- The Long Tomorrow (Originally in English, 1976), artist
- L'Homme est-il bon? (English translation, 1977), writer & artist
- Le Garage Hermétique (The Airtight Garage, English translation, 1976–1980), writer & artist
- Les Yeux du Chat (1978), artist
- Tueur de monde (1979), writer & artist
- l'Incal (The Incal, 6 volumes, English translation, 1981–1988), artist
- Les Maîtres du temps (1982), artist
- Venise céleste (1984), writer & artist
- Le Monde d'Edena (1985–2001), writer & artist
- Altor (7 volumes, 1986 - ), writer
- Silver Surfer: Parable (Originally in English, 1988–1989), artist
- Escale sur Pharagonescia (1989), writer & artist
- Les Vacances du Major (1992), writer & artist
- Le Coeur couronné (The Crowned Heart, English translation, 1992), artist
- Les Histoires de Monsieur Mouche (1994), artist
- Griffes d'Ange (1994), artist
- Little Nemo (1994), writer
- Ballades (1 volume, 1995), artist
- Après l'Incal (2000 - ), artist
- Icare (2005), writer
- Halo Graphic Novel (Originally in English, 2006), artist
- Inside Moebius (2000–2010), writer & artist
- Arzak L'Arpenteur (2010), writer & artist
Collected editions
The English-language versions of many of Moebius's comics have been collected into various editions, beginning with a series of trade paperbacks from Marvel Comics' Epic imprint in the late 1980s and early 1990s:
The Collected Fantasies of Jean Giraud (1987–1994):
- Moebius 0 - The Horny Goof & Other Underground Stories (72 pages, Dark Horse, 1990, ISBN 1878574167)
- Moebius ½ - The Early Moebius & Other Humorous Stories (Graphitti Designs, 1992, ISBN 0936211288)
- Moebius 1 - Upon A Star (72 pages, Marvel/Epic, 1987, ISBN 0871352788)
- Moebius 2 - Arzach & Other Fantasy Stories (72 pages, Titan, ISBN 1852860456, Marvel/Epic, 1987)
- Moebius 3 - The Airtight Garage (120 pages, Titan, ISBN 1852860464, Marvel/Epic, 1987)
- Moebius 4 - The Long Tomorrow & Other Science Fiction Stories (70 pages, Marvel/Epic, 1987, ISBN 0871352818)
- Moebius 5 - The Gardens of Aedena (72 pages, Titan, ISBN 1852860472, Marvel/Epic, 1988, ISBN 0871352826)
- Moebius 6 - Pharagonesia & Other Strange Stories (72 pages, Titan, ISBN 1852860480, Marvel/Epic, 1988)
- Moebius 7 - The Goddess (88 pages, Marvel/Epic, 1990, ISBN 0871357143)
- Moebius 8 - Mississippi River (64 pages, Marvel/Epic, 1991, ISBN 0871357151)
- Moebius 9 - Stel (Marvel/Epic, 1994)
Most of these volumes were later reissued by Graphitti Designs in assorted combinations, as a series of signed and numbered hardcover limited editions.
In 2010 and 2011, the publisher Humanoids (in the U.S.) began releasing new editions of Moebius works, starting with three of Moebius's past collaborations with Alexandro Jodorowsky: The Incal (original series complete in one volume), Madwoman of the Sacred Heart (all three parts complete in one volume), and The Eyes of the Cat.
Filmography
- Alien (1979)
- The Time Masters (1982)
- Tron (1982)
- Masters of the Universe (1987)
- Willow (1988)
- The Abyss (1989)
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
- The Fifth Element (1997) - The production design for the film was developed by French comics creators Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Jean-Claude Mézières and is detailed in a DVD/Blu-ray special feature.
- The Jodorowsky Constellation (1994) - He talks about his collaboration with Alexandro Jodorowsky on the mega film project Dune and on the comic strip the Incal. During the psycho-genealogical session that concludes the film, he also impersonates the father of the filmmaker Louis Mouchet.
- Mister Gir & Mike S. Blueberry (1999) - A documentary portrait by Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew produced by the Centre National de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France. Giraud does numerous sketches and watercolors of his most famous creation, Blueberry, travels to Saint Malo for the celebrated comic-book festival, visits his Paris editor Dargaud, and in the film's last sequence, does a spontaneous life-size portrait in real time of Geronimo on a huge sheet of glass using a felt-tipped pen.
- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2002) - Giraud conceived the poster for the documentary's 2003 North American release and appears in the DVD bonus extras of the French version.
- Blueberry (2004) - On the DVD extras Giraud talks about the comic, the film etc., dressed in period costume, apparently having done a cameo role in the film. At IMDB,[24] Giraud is credited as a writer and uncredited actor in the film.
- Thru the Moebius Strip (2005)
- Giraud worked on Alejandro Jodorowsky's film adaptation of Dune which was never completed.
- Giraud's artwork for the Dan O'Bannon short story comic "The Long Tomorrow" was a key visual reference for Blade Runner.
- Giraud represented the jury of the Paris Storyboard Contest 2005 (Concours SOPADIN - Société Parisienne des Images Nouvelles) and awarded the two young artists and filmmakers "K-Michel Parandi" (Kay Parandi) & "Jean François Guillon" for their work on the futuristic and experimental film "Minuit 14". Jean Giraud was assisted on this by the notorious French director "Gerard Krawczyk" (Taxi, Fanfan la tulipe).
- George Lucas used one of Giraud's designs for the Imperial Probe Droid in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Lucas's later Star Wars films also share many visual characteristics with Giraud's work, particularly the depiction of the city-planet Coruscant.
- Giraud also shared "Story by" credit on the animated film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.
- Strange frame (2009)
- Métamoebius (2010) - Documentary portrait of Giraud-Moebius directed by Damian Pettigrew and co-written by Jean Giraud for the 2010 retrospective held at the Fondation Cartier for Contemporary Art in Paris.
Video games
- Fade to Black cover art (1995)
- Panzer Dragoon (1995)
- Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon (1998)
- An arcade and bar based on Giraud's work, called The Airtight Garage, was one of the original main attractions at the Metreon in San Francisco when the complex opened in 1999. It included three original games: Quaternia, a first-person shooter networked between terminals and based on the concept of "junctors" from Major Fatal and The Airtight Garage; a virtual reality bumper cars game about mining asteroids; and Hyperbowl, an obstacle course bowling game incorporating very little overtly Moebius imagery. The arcade was closed and reopened as "Portal One", retaining much of the Moebius-based decor and Hyperbowl but eliminating the other originals in favor of more common arcade games.
Awards
- 1973: Shazam Award, Best Foreign Comic Series, for Lieutenant Blueberry
- 1975: Yellow Kid Award, Lucca, Italy, Best Foreign Artist[25]
- 1977: Angoulême International Comics Festival Best French Artist
- 1979: Adamson Award, for Lieutenant Blueberry etc.
- 1980: Yellow Kid Award, Lucca, Italy, Best Foreign Author[26]
- 1980: Grand Prix de la Science Fiction Française, Special Prize, for Major Fatal[27]
- 1981: Angoulême International Comics Festival Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême
- 1985: Angoulême International Comics Festival Grand Prix for the graphic arts
- 1986: Inkpot Award
- 1988: Harvey Award, Best American Edition of Foreign Material, for Moebius album series
- 1989: Eisner Award, Best Finite Series, for Silver Surfer
- 1989: Harvey Award, Best American Edition of Foreign Material, for Incal
- 1991: Eisner Award, Best Single Issue, for Concrete
- 1991: Harvey Award, Best American Edition of Foreign Material, for Lieutenant Blueberry
- 1997: Designated finalist for induction into the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1989, inducted in 1997
- 1997: World Fantasy Award: Artist category
- 1998: Included in the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
- 2000: Max & Moritz Prizes, Special Prize for outstanding life's work
- 2001: Haxtur Award Best Long Comic Strip, for The Crowned Heart
Notes
- ^ Jean Giraud, alias Moebius, est mort sur europe1.fr
- ^ Comics Buyer's Guide #1485; May 3, 2002; Page 29
- ^ "Moebius perd son procès contre Besson" (in French). ToutenBD.com. 2004-05-28. http://www.toutenbd.com/article.php3?id_article=697. Retrieved 2007-01-20.
- ^ Annonce du décès à Paris de Jean Giraud
- ^ http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03/10/moebius-aka-jean-girard-aka-gir-has-passed-away/ Moebius, aka Jean Girard, aka Gir, Has Passed Away
- ^ http://www.liberation.fr/culture/01012395155-jean-giraud-alias-moebius-pere-de-blueberry-s-efface
- ^ De Weyer, Geert (2008) (in Dutch). 100 stripklassiekers die niet in je boekenkast mogen ontbreken. Amsterdam / Antwerp: Atlas. p. 215. ISBN 9789045009964.
- ^ a b c "Jean Giraud". Comiclopedia. Lambiek. http://lambiek.net/artists/g/giraud.htm.
- ^ Expo GIR et MOEBIUS, 1997, accessed March 12, 2011.
- ^ "Blueberry au bord du Nervous break-down...", bdparadisio
- ^ "Jean Giraud sur un scénario de Jean-Michel Charlier", bdparadisio.com (French)
- ^ "Moebius - Jean Giraud - Video del Maestro all' opera", YouTube, 30 May 2008
- ^ TVtropes.com
- ^ Video.google.com
- ^ [http://ocs.library.dal.ca/ojs/index.php/YAHS/article/viewFile/413/398 Breasts and Beasts: Some Prominent Figures in the History of Fantasy Art. 2006. Myrna Allen, Linda Bedwell, Jonathan Lewis, Kate Thompson, Jocelyne Veinot, Byron Walker, YA Hotline, Dalhousie University]
- ^ Hachereau, Dominique. "BD - Bande Dessinee et Philatelie" (in French). http://dominique.hochereau.free.fr/bd/lacom.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-18
- ^ Official website on the Miyazaki-Moebius exhibition at La Monnaie, Paris
- ^ Bordenave, Julie. "Miyazaki Moebius : coup d'envoi". AnimeLand.com. http://www.animeland.com/index.php?rub=articles&id=618. Retrieved 2008-05-18
- ^ Ghibli Museum, ed (in Japanese). Ghibli Museumdiary 2002-08-01. Tokuma Memorial Cultural Foundation for Animation. http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/diary/004624.html. Retrieved 2008-05-18
- ^ Libiot, Eric (4 January 2007). "Giraud s'aventure dans XIII". L'Express. http://www.lexpress.fr/mag/arts/dossier/bd/dossier.asp?ida=454736.(French)
- ^ Annonce du décès à Paris de Jean Giraud
- ^ http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03/10/moebius-aka-jean-girard-aka-gir-has-passed-away/ Moebius, aka Jean Girard, aka Gir, Has Passed Away
- ^ http://www.liberation.fr/culture/01012395155-jean-giraud-alias-moebius-pere-de-blueberry-s-efface
- ^ Jean Giraud at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "11° Salone Internationale del Comics, del Film di Animazione e dell'Illustrazione". immaginecentrostudi.org. http://www.immaginecentrostudi.org/saloni/salone11.asp.(Italian)
- ^ "14° Salone Internationale del Comics, del Film di Animazione e dell'Illustrazione". immaginecentrostudi.org. http://www.immaginecentrostudi.org/saloni/salone14.asp.(Italian)
- ^ noosfere.org. "Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire". http://www.noosfere.org/gpi/palmares.asp. (French)
References
- Jean Giraud (Gir, Moebius) publications in Spirou, Pilote, Métal Hurlant, Fluide Glacial, (A SUIVRE) and BoDoï BDoubliées (French)
- Jean Giraud albums Bedetheque (French)
- Moebius albums Bedetheque (French)
- Jean Giraud on Bdparadisio.com (French)
- Jean Giraud Moebius on Artfacts.net, about the expositions of original drawings of Moebius. (English)
- Moebius publications in English www.europeancomics.net (English)
- Illustration Art Gallery
- Jean Giraud at the Comic Book DB
External links
- Official website (French)
- Twists of Fate on France magazine (English)
- Jean Giraud profile on Artfacts (English)
- Giraud on bpip.com (English)
- Jean Giraud on Lambiek Comiclopedia (English)
- Moebius at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Giraud at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Moebius Redux biographical documentary.
- Moebius on contours-art.de (German)
- Moebius Interview - Jean Giraud - The eternal traveler.
- Jean �Moebius� Girard biography at the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
- French comic book illustrator Moebius dies in Paris by Radio France Internationale English service
Further reading
- Erik Svane, Martin Surmann, Alain Ledoux, Martin Jurgeit, Gerhard Förster, Horst Berner: "Blueberry und der europäische Western-Comic" (2003, Zack-Dossier 1; Berlin: Mosaik, ISBN 3-932667-59-X)
Jean Giraud | |
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Jean Giraud at the International Festival of Comics in Łódź, 4 October 2008. | |
Born | 8 May 1938 Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France |
Died | March 10, 2012 Paris, France | (aged 73)
Nationality | French |
Area(s) | Writer, Artist |
Pseudonym(s) | Mœbius, Gir |
Notable works | Blueberry Arzach The Incal |
Awards | Full list |
Official website |
Moebius: Le Chasseur déprime by pointgmagazine
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