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Just learned today that Jean 'Moebius' Giraud the French illustrator/artist has passed away 10th March, aged 73.
The Pope of Comics, his artwork had a profound influence on my own art work from around the age of twenty and always a favourite of mine since, his works Arzach and The Airtight Garage in particular having a special place still in my library.His original style had influenced two or more generations of artists and continues to do so and definitely ahead of his time and ground breaking back in the seventies and early eighties.
His artwork was the first I saw that had a sense of being pictures actually depicting another world or place different from our own.To quote him and paraphrase one of the art journals; ' He once described his life as a train racing to a full stop. ... Now Jean has reached his final stop, and left the world in a more interesting place because of his journey.'
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