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    Jean Giraud - Wikipedia

    Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius (/ˈmoʊbiəs/; French: [møbjys]) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent … See more

    Jean Giraud was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris, on 8 May 1938, as the only child to Raymond Giraud, an insurance agent, and Pauline Vinchon, … See more

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    Giraud died in Montrouge, on 10 March 2012, aged 73, after a long battle with cancer. His death was expedited by a lymphoma-induced pulmonary embolism. Fellow comic artist François Boucq (incidentally, the artist pegged by Giraud in person for the … See more

    Note: those works for which English translations have been published are noted as such. Their respective pages describe this further, … See more

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    Western comics
    At 18, Giraud was drawing his own humorous, Morris-inspired, Western comic two-page shorts, … See more

    Giraud's working methods were various and adaptable ranging from etchings, white and black illustrations, to work in colour of the ligne claire genre and water colours. Giraud's solo Blueberry works were sometimes criticized by fans of the series because the … See more

    They said that I changed their life, 'You changed my life', 'Your work is why I became an artist'. Oh, it makes me happy. But you know at same time I have an internal broom to clean it all up. It can be dangerous to believe it. Someone wrote, 'Moebius is a … See more

    Feature-length, live-action films
    Alien (1979) - Short stay but his concept art were sourced for the film.
    Tusk (1980) - Film poster artwork
    Tron (1982) - Concept and storyboard artist. See more

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