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Moebius tribute

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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Yes, I know, we keep saying last tribute piece of art to the much missed great artist, but Olivier Giradot has posted up a short video tribute, with his own music as soundtrack, to the late, great Moebius, so again invoking the ‘always room for one more’ rule: Moebius from Olivier Girardot on Vimeo.

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More Moebius tribute art

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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I was going to say we had pretty much covered the many fine tribute art pieces a number of folks created after the sad news of the great artist’s death a few weeks ago, but Gerry Alanguilan just posted up a new one and it is such a splendid piece I’m invoking the “always room [...]

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A little more Moebius tribute art

Saturday, March 24, 2012

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Some that I missed, some that appeared this week… memories of the magnificent Moebius who passed away earlier this month. Jason mixes a little of two great men; Moebius and Herriman: Duncan Fegredo (at What Not Art blog): Philip Bond (another from What Not): Evan Shaner (Comic Twart) Dan Panosian (Again Comic Twart)

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Moebius archive

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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The blog of respected French publisher Dargaud posts up some shots from a visit to their archives, yielding up some elements from early Moebius – under his Jean Giruad name – and showing the components that have to be slotted together to create a graphic novel, or I should say album here, especially back in [...]

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Art for Moebius…..

Sunday, March 18, 2012

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Jean Giraud / Moebius / Gir ….. three names, one incredible man. Last weekend the comic world received the terrible news that we’d lost an innovative genius. And all week we’ve been seeing various pieces of art go up online to pay tribute. Here’s a selection. I’m sure no-one invoved here would mind me saying [...]

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How Giraud opened my eyes

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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Jean Giraud, creator extraordinaire, has passed away.  It would have befitted any Continental Correspondent worth his mettle to at least write a piece about that sad, sad fact.  However, the ever-present and relentless Richard beat me to it. There’s another reason why I’m not really keen on doing a real retrospective is that I hardly [...]

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Moebius – a life in pictures

Monday, March 12, 2012

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Over the weekend we had the sad news of the passing of the absolutely legendary artist, designer and comics master Moebius (see Richard’s post here); André Oliveira has posted up the full documentary seen on BBC4, Moebius: a Life in Pictures online, including contributions from figures like Stan Lee, Jodorowsky and more. Noting the BBC [...]

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Genius lost – R.I.P. Jean Giraud / Moebius (1938 – 2012)

Saturday, March 10, 2012

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(Moebius portrait from LA Times Hero Complex interview in 2011) News broke earlier that the comic medium lost a genius today. Jean Giraud, known internationally as Moebius died today at the age of 73 after a long illness. Moebius was one of the stars of European comics, certainly one of the best known European artists, [...]

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The Incal. Sci-Fi genius…..

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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The Incal Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Illustrated by Moebius SelfMadehero A justifiably acclaimed comics masterpiece, The Incal has a writer and artist absolutely ablaze with creativity; where the brilliance of Moebius’ visual storytelling is in absolute synergy with Jodorowsky’s utterly out-there ideas. Described by many as a seminal works of science fiction …. and yes, I’m [...]

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New Incal edition from SelfMadeHero

Monday, August 15, 2011

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I am so looking forward to Jodorowsky and Moebius’ seminal European science fiction comic The Incal getting a much deserved new English language edition – coming from our friends at SelfMadeHero this autumn. If you haven’t read it, it’s one of those works that belong on the shelves of any serious collector of quality comics [...]

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New meme thingy… draw Moebius’ Starwatcher…

Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Oh, I do enjoy these…. the latest artist meme, started by Brandon Graham, is a redraw challenge to do your own version of Moebius’ Starwatcher. Here’s the original: … and here’s some of the versions going around…. Moritat Brandon Graham adding a little Bubblegum Crisis to the mix…. And Jordyn Bochon joining in: … and [...]

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Moebius: ““We need a moment …….. It’s time to talk about art.”

Saturday, April 9, 2011

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(You know, when I’m as old as Moebius, I would give anything to look this staggeringly, iconically cool.) LA Time Hero Complex has on online article/interview with Moebius, the 72 year old artist responsible for some of the most incredible visions of the last century – The Incal, Arzach, The Airtight Garage, Lt. Blueberry. It [...]

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Tumblr-ing along …. more of them:

Sunday, January 23, 2011

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Yep, more Tumblrs dedicated to a single artist/writer. Not new, just things I stumbled over this week…. joining Moore, Morrison, Ellis and Kevin Church’s long-running Daily Batman we have…. Jack Kirby at “Fuck Yeah Kirby!“. That’s one of two of Kirby’s interpretations of God. Moebius at Quenched Conciousness (Via Heidi)

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From our continental correspondent – happy new year from Moebius

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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It’s still January, which means it’s still not inappropriate to wish one another a happy new year.  And so I would like to draw your attention to the animated New Year’s card that French comics god Moebius created for the Fondation Cartier. 2011 E-Card, by Mœbius Uploaded by FondationCartier. – Arts and animation videos. If [...]

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Art for art’s sake!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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A few things that looked lovely to my tired, ill eyes this week…… (From his Flickrstream; Luke Pearson‘s fan art of Marc Ellerby‘s Chloe Noonan) (Via Mark Kardwell – Simon Gane‘s Lemmy on horseback) (Via Pete Ashton on Twitter – a brilliant, and as gorgeous as you may expect, Moebius Tumblr blog – The Airtight [...]

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