At the college, he befriended other future comic artists Jean-Claude Mézières and Pat Mallet. ![]() In 1954, at age 16, he began his only technical training at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, where he started producing Western comics, though these did not sit well with his conventional teachers. Īt age 9–10, Giraud started to draw Western comics while enrolled by his single mother as a stop-gap measure in the Saint-Nicolas boarding school in Issy-les-Moulineaux for two years (and where he became acquainted with Belgian comic magazines such as Spirou and Tintin), much to the amusement of his schoolmates. Playing an abundance of American B-movie Westerns, Giraud, frequenting the theater there as often as he was able to, developed a passion for the genre, as did so many other European boys his age in those times. A somewhat sickly and introverted child at first, young Giraud found solace after World War II in a small theater, located on a corner in the street where his mother lived, which concurrently provided an escape from the dreary atmosphere in postwar reconstruction-era France. The rupture between mother and father created a lasting trauma that he explained lay at the heart of his choice of separate pen names. When he was three years old, his parents divorced and he was subsequently raised by mainly his grandparents, who were living in the neighboring municipality of Fontenay-sous-Bois (much later, when he was an acclaimed artist, Giraud returned to live in the municipality in the mid-1970s, but was unable to buy his grandparents' erstwhile house ). ![]() Jean Giraud was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris, on, as the only child to Raymond Giraud, an insurance agent, and Pauline Vinchon, who had worked at the agency. Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004 by French director Jan Kounen. Mœbius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science-fiction and fantasy films, such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, and The Abyss. He also collaborated with avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky for an unproduced adaptation of Dune and the comic book series The Incal. These works include Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius. As Mœbius he achieved worldwide renown (in this case in the English-speaking nations and Japan as well – where his work as Gir had not done well), by creating a wide range of science-fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative, surreal, almost abstract style. His most famous work as Gir concerns the Blueberry series, created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics, and which is particularly valued in continental Europe. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius ( / ˈ m oʊ b i ə s/ French: ) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir ( French: ), which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western themed work. Jean Henri Gaston Giraud ( French: – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition.
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