Max is the man
A panel from SHOCK POST, a short comic in Prophet #24, out today.
By me and Matt Sheean.
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THAT VIDEOWell, if Tumblr keeps serving up great Moebius moments, I guess I’m just gonna have to keep reblogging them.
Jean Giraud and Hugo Pratt in 1972. Two of my favorites drawing two of my favorite characters. I love the giant 3-panel strip they put together on the fly.
Just amazing to see the intuitive mark making. When you think about drawing as an alternative or supplement to written language, you can really begin to see what master actors, writers, and communicators visual artists can be. In that line of thinking, we’ve lost a Shakespearean level of talent today. Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, died today in Paris at the age of 73. He drew some outstanding comics that broadened my outlook on sequential art, and provided production designs for some of my favorite movies. If you aren’t familiar with his work, do yourself a favor and give it a look. The best visual storytellers always find a way of putting their own aesthetic spin on their favorite archetypes and genres. How do you mange to make something simultaneously familiar and also part of your very own sandbox. Moebius was the master of this. His brain was like a solid gold bolt of sugar coated lightening. So many people’s visual vocabularies have a trace of him living on inside of them. We’re so much richer for having had him around.
SO CUTE
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud, aka Gir, aka Moebius
8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012
I’m at a complete loss for words right now. His influence on my life is more profound than I can properly express. I think I’m going to get offline for a while and read comics made by an untouchable genius. Wishing you all the best.
Goodbye, Jean.
