When my mother would bring me to places with a magazine rack I would inevitably peruse a copy of Heavy Metal magazine. It always had loads of sex in violence in it, and I would sneak it when no one was looking. Moebius created Heavy Metal in France as Metal Hurlant, and it totally changed comic books forever there and abroad. I believe it was Moebius' work for this magazine that drew me in. Every once and a while there would be sex and violence, but under this beautiful veneer. Every impressionistic shape made with his brush or pen implied much more than what was on the page. I have spent hours of time staring at his grass or a scribble that makes up a shadow. It was like the Renaissance figures placed through a Charles Shultz's Peanuts filter or something. Supposedly, George Lucas ripped off works of Moebius for Star Wars. Other things that has supposedly ripped off Moebius in pop culture? Blade Runner, David Lynch's Dune, and The Fifth Element. He was chosen to design work for Alien with HR Giger. Every comic made after Moebius' work has him as an influence. He didn't even let the world know he had been battling cancer. Maybe whatever controls the afterlife needed some new design work.
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012)[cont.]
When my mother would bring me to places with a magazine rack I would inevitably peruse a copy of Heavy Metal magazine. It always had loads of sex in violence in it, and I would sneak it when no one was looking. Moebius created Heavy Metal in France as Metal Hurlant, and it totally changed comic books forever there and abroad. I believe it was Moebius' work for this magazine that drew me in. Every once and a while there would be sex and violence, but under this beautiful veneer. Every impressionistic shape made with his brush or pen implied much more than what was on the page. I have spent hours of time staring at his grass or a scribble that makes up a shadow. It was like the Renaissance figures placed through a Charles Shultz's Peanuts filter or something. Supposedly, George Lucas ripped off works of Moebius for Star Wars. Other things that has supposedly ripped off Moebius in pop culture? Blade Runner, David Lynch's Dune, and The Fifth Element. He was chosen to design work for Alien with HR Giger. Every comic made after Moebius' work has him as an influence. He didn't even let the world know he had been battling cancer. Maybe whatever controls the afterlife needed some new design work.
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