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This Week’s Article: Moebius & Jean Giraud

Posted: December 19, 2010

This week’s article celebrates the incredible double life of Moebius and Jean Giraud, the two sides of one of France’s most brilliant comics geniuses. Even if you have not yet read a single comic by Moebius, let alone Jean Giraud, you have probably already been dazzled by his visual imagination unleashed in major science fiction movies. He has not only contributed directly through crucial concepts for costumes and creatures, for example in Alien, The Abyss, The Fifth Element and Tron, but his work has also unmistakably influenced many directors including George Lucas on Star Wars and Ridley Scott on Blade Runner. Lucas has said how he has been “...impressed and affected by Moebius’s keen and unusual sense of design and the distinctive way in which he depicts the fantastic.” Read the full article here…

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