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Showing posts with label Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 1, 2023

Deathburger Unit B378

Deathburger Unit B378 is an artist who's been creating very slick cyberpunk artwork for years now. Considering that the "cyberpunk future" is not going to happen, this vision is obsolete but the art is so cool nonetheless. If you're a fan of moebius and Geoff Darrow, you'll LOVE this.

This is essentially an artbook, no text or story. There is volume 2 and a bunch of other books but they are in pdf format


Saturday, March 11, 2023

Non Album Collections 411

Hypericon (2023)

It's 2001, and Teresa, a young Italian suffering from insomnia and a generally fragile state of mind, has just arrived in Berlin with a grant to help organize an exhibit of Tutankhamen's treasure. Though she finds support in Ruben, a fellow Italian expat, she struggles to keep it together. Her one anchor is reading Howard Carter's book about his discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922, finding solace in the Egyptologist's writing and the thought of that noble young pharaoh resting undisturbed for three thousand years. by Manuele Fior.

Vision of Arzach (1993)

Various artists were asked to illustrate Arzack: Sergio Aragones, Bissette, Mark Bode, Brian Bolland, Frank Brunner, John Buscema, Tim Conrad, Richard Corben, Kevin Eastman, Dave Gibbons, Scott Hampton, Kelly Jones, Kaluta, Joe Kubert, Mazzucchelli, Angus McKie, Jamie hernandez, Jon Muth, Katsuhiro Otomo, Michale Ploog, Sienkiewicz, Steranko, Brian Talbot, Charless Vess, Kent Williams and others.

Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Pyramid

published by Bagheera in the 1990s, authored by Claude Moliterni and Giancarlo Alessandrini.


Monday, February 27, 2023

Non Album Collections 408

disintegrated reintegrated

moebius books that are collection of commercial works moebius did in the 1970s: illustrations, book covers, etc. In French, but there is very little text.

2000-2010 odds and ends short stories, etc

moebius - odds and ends from 2000-2010. short stories, portfolios, etc.

book MH [La machine arever 1975-87]

a text book about the history of METAL HURLANT magazine, with interviews with Giraud, Druillet, Dionnet, Jodorowski, Farkas, illustrated with photos.


Thursday, February 23, 2023

Non Album Collections 407

Transgenesis 2029 - Fides GN (DC-Humanoids 2004)

Written by Anne Ploy. Art and cover by Loïc Malnati. In the year 2029, the country's new theocratic government has developed a bio-engineered virus called "Fides" that kills anyone who doubts the state religion. Now theology student Marie Appton must risk everything to stop the Fides program and put an end to the dictatorship! Softcover,

MOEBIUS work for movies

This is a collection of images, drawings, concepts, and books that moebius did for movies. The list includes: Dune, Tron, Alien, The Abyss, Masters Of The Universe, Willow, Through The Moebius Strip, Samurai.

The Complaint of Man Program

moebius books that are collection of commercial works moebius did in the 1970s: illustrations, book covers, etc. In French, but there is very little text.


Sunday, February 5, 2023

Non Album Collections 404

Moebius-Paradis-Dante

One of the masters of contemporary comics, he has also lent his visionary imagination to cinema, creating the settings for cult films such as Blade Ranner, Tron, Dune, Alien and finally the Fifth Element. In 1998 it was celebrated in Italy by an important exhibition, Infinito, hosted in Palermo (magazzini Ferroviari ai Lolli), Milan (Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi), Venice (Fondazione Querini Stampalia). In 2000 an anthology was presented in Naples, at the Città della Scienza.

moebius - portfolio Hendrix [Moebius, Hendrix, Coghe 1998]

An iconic (at least in Europe) imagining of Jimi Hendrix in a series of psychedelic worlds and landscapes; ten color images plus three black-and-white sheets. This Hendrix portfolio is an extended riff on the art Moebius (pseudonym of Jean Girard) did for the 1975 French release of Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love. 

moebius - Arzach (FPScans) HM Presents+eXtras

A collection of the dream-like science-fiction images and visual storytelling techniques of Jean Giraud ("Moebius"), including his wordless "pantomime" work and the character Arzach.



Saturday, January 28, 2023

Non Album Collections 402

Sapiens Imperium (2021)

After losing the imperial throne to the Kerkans, all members of the Khelek Dynasty and their allies were banished to the barren caves of Tazma. Sixty-five standard years later, their descendants are still held captive there. Xinthia has had enough. "In 1972, the Moroccan king Hassan II escaped an attack organized by General Oufkir, a close relative. Oufkir was executed, but his wife and six children, the youngest of whom was only three, were thrown into a dungeon from which they would not emerge for nineteen years. by Sam Timel  (Author), Jorge Miguel (Illustrator).

The Forest

The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing effect.

moebius - Arzak the Surveyor

Arzak the Surveyor preview published in Beau Arts magazine.


Thursday, January 26, 2023

Metal Hurlant (repost)

Métal hurlant is a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas.

The four were collectively known as "Les Humanoïdes Associés" (United Humanoids), which became the name of the publishing house releasing Métal hurlant. It was published in the United States by National Lampoon under the title Heavy Metal. ISSN 0336-4747 (Métal Hurlant Aventure).

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Altor Series (Magic Crystal)

Esotericism, mixing heroic fantasy and science fiction, against a backdrop of lost crystal. This is a funkadelic fantasy/sci-fi mashup in the spirit of Heavy Metal magazine. It has magic, elves, spaceships, and trolls with laserguns. The art has a groovy vibe. Created by Jean "Mœbius" Giraud.


Friday, January 6, 2023

Non Album Collections 401

JERONATON - Champakou

Jeronaton's famous Champakou story about a Mayan astrologer who is visited by a beautiful extra terrestrial woman because she wants some of his virile male energy. Problem is he already has a secret lover who gets super jealous... Painted in photorealistic style. When I first saw it, I was weirded out how young Doll of Jade looked exactly like the Gypsy girl I dated one summer.

moebius - The Major - expanded edition+extras (2018)

The Major is at another mystical spiritual quest again, this time hunting for a key that will enable him to dream any dream he wants to. I'm not sure if this should have even been published, it is essentially a sketchbook drawings by moebius started in 1997. Moebius worked on it on and off untill 2009. It started with him just goofing around, the actual story begins at page 100. It was published in 2018, long after moebius' death.

Hugo Pratt - West of Eden

Lieutenant Abel Robinson's patrol tracks down a rebel group and its leader Mad Mullah in the Horn of Africa. The rebels who have sown death seem to be disappearing into the hot, quivering air of the desert, and the patrol's journey takes increasingly strange turns. When a sandstorm rises, Lieutenant Robinson ends up in another world - West of Eden...


Sunday, December 25, 2022

Non Album Collections 398

A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story (Cinebook 2022)

In 19th century London, on Christmas Eve, the greedy, selfish misanthrope Scrooge encounters the ghost of his dead partner, who warns him that three spirits will visit him to make him change his
ways before he is damned forever. Charles Dicken’s story is universally known, but in this adaptation by Munuera, Ebenezer becomes Elizabeth, and that simple yet fundamental difference, with all the social baggage it entails, may make her rather more unrepentant than her original model. by José-Luis Munuera (Author, Illustrator).

Pepe Moreno - Gene Kong (1986)

A hapless scientist living in the slums of New York city is tired of getting bullied, robbed and harassed so he invents a serum that transforms him into... Gene Kong! Drawn by Moreno in the 1980s,l it only took Heavy Metal 20 years to translate it and publish it.

moebius - Maxwell coffee portfolio (1989)

A small portfolio of beautiful advertisements moebius created for Maxwell coffee in the late 1980s. Very elegant style drawings. Small amount of text that I translated. Not the highest quality but that's what I got.


Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Non Album Collections 395

Ladies of Legend (Europe Comics 2022)

Script  & Art by Blanche Sabbah. Eve, Snow White, Karaba the Sorceress, Scheherazade, the Little Mermaid, the Queen of Sheba… From the dawn of mythology to medieval fairytales and today’s pop culture, these women characters have filled our childhoods and fueled our imaginations. But do we know their real stories? These ladies of legend have almost always been presented from a male viewpoint. Their stories have been used to fuel negative stereotypes and keep women in their place: in the subordinate, rigid, and caricatured roles of evil temptress, devoted wife, femme fatale, jealous stepmother, or sweet ingenue… But what if the same legends were—finally—told by women?

moebius - FUSION (1995)

Artwork moebius did during the 1990s for commercial projects, advertisements, personal illustrations, sketches, movie projects, etc. Some of is the work he did for Marvel and DC. This is a scan of library copy, so a few of the pages with nudity were removed. The file size is big because made the jpgs in highest quality as possible.

Temudjin (2022)

A child is born in an ancient distant land, celebrated by the shamen Ozbeg who senses the spirit of greatness inside him. This boy, Temudjin, must be guided to listen to the voices of nature around him, for one day, he will lead the Mongol clans to glory as the great Genghis Khan. A lush, lyrical, almost operatic fable speculating on the youth of the first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. Filled with mysticism and surreal visions, this grand epic takes on a fantasy quality lightly infused with just enough nuggets of history to set in time. Torn between a destiny he is told to have and a life he would otherwise chose for himself, the mind of a legendary warlord is laid bare to readers in a cinematic and poetic narrative breathtakingly illustrated by Antoine Carrion.


Monday, December 5, 2022

Final Incal (repost)

The story from the unfinished After the Incal was rewritten to provide a separate narrative for this volume. The story starts after The Incal climax in which John DiFool encountered flowing-beareded divine being named Orh, witnessing a universe-shaking event, hurtling towards certain death in the acid lake. DiFool forgets about the cosmical encounter, and recovers his memory as the universe faces a threat of a metallic virus. The Prezident was cloned in metallic body, equipped with both chemical and brutal weapons, but also altered mind - operating under the influence of the "destroyer of all living things", the Bentacodon (equivalent to The Incal's Black Egg). He unleashed destructive organic virus called the Biophage 13-X with the purpose of forcing the population to abandon their natural bodies in favor of robotic ones.

The only way to counteract is to reunite John DiFool with his true love, Luz de Garra (from Before the Incal), and the Elohim (a force of goodness) makes four John DiFools from different realities to encounter each other on a quest to find her. It is ridiculed the ego of the allegedly evolved guru DiFool and the super-evolved "angelic" DiFool, and the least enlightened DiFool, the ugliest and most craven, is selected to save the universe. In the end, the cosmic humanity managed to become one collective consciousness, as a true love saves from turning into unfeeling metallic beings. Final Incal.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Incal (repost)

The Incal (French: L'Incal) is a French graphic novel series written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and originally illustrated by Jean Giraud. The Incal, with first pages originally released as Une aventure de John Difool ("A John Difool Adventure") in Métal hurlant and published by Les Humanoïdes Associés, introduced Jodorowsky's "Jodoverse" (or "Metabarons Universe"), a fictional universe in which his science fiction comics take place. It is an epic space opera blending fantastical intergalactic voyage, science, technology, political intrigues, conspiracies, messianism, mysticism, poetry, debauchery and satire. The Incal includes and expands the concepts and artwork from the abandoned film project Dune directed by Jodorowksy and designed by Giraud from the early 1970s.

Originally published in installments between 1981 and 1988, and followed by Before the Incal (1988–1995, with Zoran Janjetov), After the Incal (2000, with Jean Giraud), and Final Incal (2008–2014, with José Ladrönn) has been described as a contender for "the best comic book" in the medium's history. From it spin-off related series Metabarons, The Technopriests, and Mégalex.


Monday, September 26, 2022

Madwoman of the Sacred Heart (repost)

Madwoman of the Sacred Heart is a series of comic book in three volumes. Alain Mangel, professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne, following an unexpected divorce, yield to the advances of one of his students, Elizabeth. Rife with mystical delusions, it will slowly plunge the teacher in a whirlwind of events that will totally delusional his knowledge to the test of irrationality. Helped by a prophet heroin addict and the daughter of a big shot of the South American drug traffickers, Elizabeth will not only get a child of Alain Mangel, but persuade him to open his eyes to a doubtful faith. Crowned Heart is the name of a cafe street of Ironwork, in Paris. Screenplay: Alejandro Jodorowsky. Drawings: Moebius. Colors: Florence Breton (Volume 1), Scarlett (volumes 2 and 3).



Sunday, September 18, 2022

Non Album Collections 383

La Faune de Mars (2018)

by Moebius. Everyone now knows that the planet Mars is barren. However, robots are sent there at great expense, equipped with small remote-controlled shovels, which stubbornly dig the arid soil in the hope of discovering the curled-up fossils of ancient bacteria.

Philippe Druillet - short stories translated

Philippe Druillet is one of the best European BD artists from the 1970s and 1980s, and it was great when Heavy Metal magazine began translating and publishing his work in the 1970s.

The Hunted Hunter

by Moebius. Drawn between 2005 and 2008. Moebius was obviously feeling death approaching so he was frantically studying and practicing Carlos Castaneda's "The Art of Dreaming". The French edition's name is "The depressed Hunter" but we prefer "The Hunted Hunter", the Spanish name.


Saturday, August 27, 2022

Icaro

Two award-winning graphic artists have produced an outstanding tale of cyberpunk adventure and the quest for freedom. Icaro is a thrilling manga science fiction adventure in the tradition of Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Clamp's sf sagas. Icaro is the mind-bending, fast-paced adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life-and more-to help Icaro achieve his dream. Best of all, it capitalizes on Taniguchi's ability to depict a vast and oppressive advanced science laboratory that has made Icaro its guinea pig and will use all its resources to keep him imprisoned for study. Icaro's fight to be free and Yukiko's sacrifice to aid him in his quest make this one of the most inspiring manga stories and one of the first significant original manga collaborations between East and West. by Mœbius, Jirō Taniguchi (artist).


Sunday, March 22, 2020

Moebius Library - Inside Moebius

Moebius draws himself encountering his favorite characters--creations like Blueberry, Arzak, and Major Grubert--and also meets a younger version of himself! Working closely with Moebius Production in France, Dark Horse presents Inside Moebius, A six-part study with Inside Moebius Part 1 collecting the first two chapters in this fantastic exploration of a creator meeting his own creations. Dark Horse will release all parts to this exceptional, intimate series in 2018! This is the third volume in the Moebius Library hardcover series and the beginning of Moebius's most intensely personal project.


Saturday, November 23, 2019

Non Album Collections 192

Moebius Library - Inside Moebius Part 02 (2018)

Moebius draws himself encountering his favorite characters--creations like Blueberry, Arzak, and Major Grubert--and also meets a younger version of himself!
Working closely with Moebius Production in France, Dark Horse presents Inside Moebius, A six-part study with Inside Moebius Part 1 collecting the first two chapters in this fantastic exploration of a creator meeting his own creations. Dark Horse will release all parts to this exceptional, intimate series in 2018! This is the third volume in the Moebius Library hardcover series and the beginning of Moebius's most intensely personal project.

Hair Shirt (2011)

John and Naomi were childhood sweethearts - and then they grew up. Life took them on very different paths, but accidents will happen. When their two lives intersect again, they decide to have another go at love. But this is no simple romantic rekindling: Both John and Naomi are wearing the hairshirts of miserable memories and dark nightmares, which may be too painful to shed, even if they hold each other tight again. Their terrible struggle is powerfully represented in beautifully nuanced art that reflects a soulless city, troubled love, and tense aimlessness.

Madame Cat (2018)

In this household, the cat is king of the castle! Madame means mischief in this series of slice-of-life vignettes that present the private love, laughter and frustrations of a pet who thinks she’s an owner! Whether she’s tearing up clothes, spilling ink on the carpet or filling the air with stinky tuna-breath, Madame is both wonderfully frustrating and endearingly whimsical. With narrative mastery, Nancy Peña brings us small, hilarious sketches that appeal to cat lovers of all ages!