Jean Giraud

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud French ʒiʁo 8 May 1938 10 March 2012 was a French artist cartoonist and writer who worked in the FrancoBelgian bandes dessinées BD tradition Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius ˈmoʊbiəs French møbjys for his fantasysciencefiction work and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir French ʒiʁ which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Westernthemed work Esteemed by Federico Fellini Stan Lee and Hayao Miyazaki among others he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé His most famous body of work as Gir concerns the Blueberry series created with writer JeanMichel Charlier featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics and which is particularly valued in continental Europe As Mœbius he achieved worldwide renown in this case in the Englishspeaking nations and Japan as well where his work as Gir had not done well by creating a wide range of sciencefiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative surreal almost abstract style These works include Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius He also collaborated with avant garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky for an unproduced adaptation of Dune and the comicbook series The Incal Mœbius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to several sciencefiction and fantasy films such as Alien Tron The Fifth Element and The Abyss Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004 by French director Jan Kounen Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Giraud licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia