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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Death / Books / Nerd Moebius

Posted by on Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:29 AM

The legendary French comics artist, whose real name was Jean Giraud, has died. He was 73. To many, Moebius is as big a deal as Jack Kirby. Among other things, he helped transform science fiction iconography, adding a sense of realistic clutter to the streamlined future that dominated our imagination in the middle of the last century. Find some tributes and a few samples of his work over at Robot 6.

 

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I barely follow comics and I've heard of the name.
Posted by floater on March 10, 2012 at 12:15 PM
pasteyboy 2
Moebius was literally one of the most influential comic book artists ever. Very sad.
Posted by pasteyboy http://pjorno.com on March 10, 2012 at 12:22 PM
JensR 3
damn it... Moebius work is the one piece of comics art I actually have framed on my walls. The man was a genius.
Posted by JensR http://ohyran.se on March 10, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Rotten666 4
His retelling of the original Silver Surfer story in Parable is one of the most beautiful comics I ever read.
Posted by Rotten666 on March 10, 2012 at 2:38 PM
Doctor Memory 5
Also dead at about the same time: Peter Bergman, my namesake.
Posted by Doctor Memory http://blahg.blank.org on March 10, 2012 at 2:59 PM
6
Having just seen some of his art, I have to say I'm really impressed.
Posted by floater on March 10, 2012 at 6:44 PM
7
No Ralph McQuarrie?
Posted by fuck you and the horse you came in on on March 10, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Tom X 8
It's been a real Oldguypocalypse these past few months. Rough season for old cartoon men.
Posted by Tom X on March 11, 2012 at 5:46 PM

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