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French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies

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Re: French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies

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Post by johncoltrane »

I was born in 1974 so I was too young to see them on their first run but I've been lucky to catch lots of reruns of "Tac au Tac" in the 80s. This incredible TV show was based on the surrealist concept of "Cadavre exquis" and made a bunch of cartoonists work together on a large drawing board around a common idea.

Jean Giraud participated in a number of episodes, including this one with Joe Kubert and Neal Adams:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj263p_joe-kubert-neal-adam...

Moebius leaves a long trail of beautiful work behind him.

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Post by wahnfrieden »

masklinn wrote: post #4
wazoox wrote: post #3

I'm pretty sure he painted the glass sets of the Death Star for "Empire strikes back", too.

According to wikipedia, Lucas used one of his designs for ESB's Imperial Probe Droid, but that's it (although later features draw from his style and works e.g. Coruscant)

Star Wars and Alien drew from his work indirectly. Notably his work on the scrapped Dune movie that started Salvadore Dali and was directed by Jodorowsky.

Re: French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies

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Post by riffraff »

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #8

I loved Moebius. And not just his sci-fi bizarro stuff. Blueberry is one of the best American Western graphic novels. His books were full of art and stories that you could simply get lost in, completely taken to a different world. Some other books worthwhile checking out that are most likely available in English: Airtight Garage, The Incal, The Metabarons.

Not sure if it was implied, as the message above is ambiguous but, but I believe `the metabarons` was drawn by Juan Giménez, though published by Moebius' publishing company.

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Post by zeruch »

When I was a teen and was moving rapidly between artistic movements (I still moonlight as an illustrator) I was generally not fascinated with too many comic artists per se (most of what I saw was "good enough" in the spandex-tight world of the Big 2 companies at the time) but Moebius was one of a few that just stuck with me. Elegant, thoroughly idiosyncratic stories, both as a narrative and as visual spectacle.

What a bummer to hear.

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Post by mladenkovacevic »

riffraff wrote: post #13
mladenkovacevic wrote: post #8

I loved Moebius. And not just his sci-fi bizarro stuff. Blueberry is one of the best American Western graphic novels. His books were full of art and stories that you could simply get lost in, completely taken to a different world. Some other books worthwhile checking out that are most likely available in English: Airtight Garage, The Incal, The Metabarons.

Not sure if it was implied, as the message above is ambiguous but, but I believe `the metabarons` was drawn by Juan Giménez, though published by Moebius' publishing company.

You are correct sir. It's been a while. A Metabaron merely appears in the Incal books as a supporting character.

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Post by stel »

Surprised to see this on HN, but glad that he still has influence outside the traditional comic book set. Moebius was an inspiration to me back when I wanted to be a comic book artist. I still have many of his graphic novels (and took my HN username from one of his works). To say he will be missed is an understatement.

Re: French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies

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Post by bane »

Really sad to hear about this. Tremendously influential in comics and modern art, but I don't think we've even begun to see how big his art is.

(Also responsible for influencing a great part of The 5th Element, one of my favorite movies)

A wonderfully different vision of the future than what we saw produced in the U.S.

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