A blog exploring the work of Jean Giraud, aka Gir, aka Moebius. Basically, there didn't seem to be any places online that gave a comprehensive collection of his work, so I made one.
[The official site of Moebius] - While there are very few of his works available to an English-only audience, the last thing I want to do is take away from potential sales by hosting his work here. If you speak French and can enjoy his books the way they were originally meant to be enjoyed, please click over and show him some love.
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Posts tagged 1987
Career Timeline: 1987 - Marvel/Epic
Starwatcher Graphics, a company that Moebius started with Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier for the purposes of exposing the U.S. to his work, struck a major deal with Marvel Comics’ creator-owned imprint Epic. Over the next few years, the majority of Moebius’ work was released through Epic, making for the largest, most comprehensive effort to translate and publish his work for an American audience ever. In 1987, the first four books were published:
Moebius 1: Upon a Star
Moebius 2: Arzach & Other Fantasy Stories
Moebius 3: The Airtight Garage
Moebius 4: The Long Tomorrow & Other Science Fiction Stories
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Career Timeline: 1987 - Pocari Sweat
Here is the commercial for Pocari Sweat, starring Cindy Crawford, based on Moebius’ concept art seen in the previous post.
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Career Timeline: 1987 - Pocari Sweat
Moebius is hired by popular Japanese soda company Pocari Sweat to design a commercial for them that would star supermodel Cindy Crawford.
(Source: jacq-jacquin.blogspot.com)
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Career Timeline: 1987 - Roma-Amor
“I went to Italy for a month, to Naples and Rome, and one day, I was walking through the streets, when I saw an artesan making little notebooks, with nice paper and nice covers. So I bought one. At the time, I thought I would give it to somebody as a present, but I should have known better. I can never resist a notebook.
So I began filling it with drawings. I drew in every kind of situation: in the train, in the plane, waiting for friends, waiting for a car, in coffee shops, in the street, in bed, at the hotel. Everywhere. I tried to do these drawings without any kind of preconceived ideas, just following my inspiration. I emptied my mind and let the drawings emerge. If there is a repitition of characters and themes, which there is, it is because it is like a psychic map of my spiritual landscape at time.”
—Moebius, from The Art of Moebius, 1989
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Career Timeline: 1987 - The Legend of Arzach
Moebius, along with Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier, return to Arzach with its first worded story. Their hope at the time was to expand the universe of the character in order to sell a film or animated series.
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