Jean Giraud

Jean Giraud
Giraud in 2008
Born	Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (1938-05-08)8 May 1938 Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Died	10 March 2012(2012-03-10) (aged 73) Montrouge, France
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Pseudonym(s)	Gir, Moebius, Jean Gir
Notable works	Blueberry Arzach Airtight Garage The Incal
Collaborators	Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean-Michel Charlier
Awards	full list
Spouse(s)	Claudine Conin ​ (m. 1967⁠–⁠1994)​ Isabelle Champeval ​ ​ (m. 1995⁠–⁠2012)​
Children	Hélène Giraud [fr] (1970) Julien Giraud (1972) Raphaël Giraud (1989) Nausicaa Giraud (1995)
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Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French: [ʒiʁo]; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius (/ˈmoʊbiəs/;^[1] French: [møbjys]) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir (French: [ʒiʁ]), which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others,^[2] he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé.^[3]

His most famous body of 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. 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. 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 comic book series The Incal.

Mœbius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science-fiction 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.