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Jean Giroud and Moebius: Masters of Comics
- 1. JEAN GIROUD MOEBIUS Francisco Guillén Cazorla 1º A ilustración
- 2. • BIOGRAPHY • WORK • TECHNIQUES & TOPICS
- 5. Ecole Nationale Superiure des Arts Appliqués et des Metiers D´art
Editor's Notes
- Let's get down to business. Hello ladies and gentlemen. I´m excited to be here. The subject of my presentation is Jean Giraud. I´d like to start by introducing myself. My name is Paco Guillén. I´m a student at the MSA (Murcia School of Arts) where I am studying illustration. I have chosen to speak Jean Giraud because he is one of the greatest illustrators and one of my favourite.
- I have divided my presentation into three parts… Let me start by explaining some details about his biography, in the next section I will present his main works and in the last place I would like to talk about his techniques and topics.
- Jean Giraud was born in Fontenay-Sous-Bous (France) in 1938 and died in Paris in 2012He was a French cartoonist known for his comics under the pseudonym of Gir and Moebius. He was the creator of classic western genre as Lieutenant Blueberry and other imaginative and renovators of science fiction. He is considered one of the most influential artists in the comic world.
- He grew up in a suburb of Paris in his grandparents´ home and at school he was fond of cartoons.
- He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Metiers D´art in Paris, where in his second year he published his first cartoon in the magazine Cœurs Vaillants
- At sixteen he moved to Mexico with his mother where he discovered painting,modern jazz, sex and marijuana. Two years later he returned to France for hismilitary service.
- In nineteen sixty-one he worked as an assistant for Jijé, one of the greatest masters of the Franco-Belgian cartoon.
- He achieved fame as a cartoonist with Lieutenant Blueberry, scripted by Jean Michel Charlier and whose publishing was made in nineteen sixty-four in the magazine Pilote and continued until the mid-nineties.
- In nineteen seventy-four he formed the publishing house Humanoids Associates with other relevant authors and together they would publish the magazine Metal Hurlant, which would be published under the pseudonym of Moebius. It was one of the most influential works of science fiction. In Moebius they experienced with graphics, narrative and colour.
- In the late seventies working with the writer and director Alejandro Jodorowsky, they prepared the adaptation of the classic film “Dune”, for five years as well as other works.
- Here you can see some sketches for the costumes of the movie Dune.
- From those years are the splendid comics, “ The long tomorrow” (1975) that would inspire American director Ridley Scott for scenes of the film “Blade Runner”.
- In the late eighties, during his stay in Los Angeles, he worked for Marvel drawing the “Silver Surfer” series scripted by Stan Lee.
- Apart from illustration, he has worked with great artist and designers of science fiction films such as Alien, Tron, The Abyss and The Fifth Element.
- Among other prizes he has been awarded with the “Best Artist Graphic Arts” in France. Its countless drawings have appeared in various publishing, records, and publicity campaigns, being exhibited in galleries in Europe and America.
- Being sixty-five years he decided to leave marijuana an began to set up a journal to reflect about his own experience that he called “Inside Moebius”, which could not be published because of his sudden death at seventy-three.
- He was an author with great capacity for a very naturalistic and academic drawing, where black stains was used to separate planes and generate volume. He covered a wide range of styles, from a pure synthetic line that defines the figures, to another near the intaglio, manually defining volumes and shapes.