https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvavenehMT0
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Saturday, 10 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, not the kind of thing that you want to read first thing on a Saturday.
But I'll tell a funny story. I'm at BEA, last year or second to last year of University, but really still just a big kid. BEA, by the by is the big publisher's/bookseller's convention, held not far from my home that year.
And I'm there, and I look up at booth and HOLY SHIT IT'S STAN LEE. And there's a smaller, slimmer, unmistakably French gentleman next to him, who Stan is introducing to someone (I want to say his wife, but not positive.) And Stan says, in a typically Stan fashion "And this is Moebius."
Just a common pleasantry between two of the gentlemen who were both big parts of my youth. Kind of a mind-melting moment.
RIP, master of the bande-desinée.
― Matt M., Saturday, 10 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
RIP
http://theartboardstudio.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/moebius_jean-giraud.jpg
― the late great, Saturday, 10 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldacandejs1qf0aafo1_500.jpg
― the late great, Saturday, 10 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck. RIP, Jean.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
my first real exposure to him was that silver surfer comic he did with stan lee, when i was 11 or 12 (i already knew him by reputation). i thought it was amazing and read it over and over
me too, me too and me too.
― brokering (pimping) (stevie), Saturday, 10 March 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
aw shit. rip
just ordered the Incal
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Sunday, 11 March 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
RIP. I met him once.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Sunday, 11 March 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
First thing of his I read was Blueberry, the Confederate Gold saga. Not typical at all as I later discovered, but an awesome awesome story, and an evocatively dusty and grimy vision of the Old West.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 11 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
BBC4 documentary
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhgb8j_in-search-of-moebius-jean-giraud-clip1-3
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Sunday, 11 March 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Aw. Just been reading l'incal and thinking how great it was that he was still around. :(
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 12 March 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
oh man... RIP
― Chris S, Monday, 12 March 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOO
man finally just got my hands on some of his stuff in the last few years
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I just grabbed Madwoman of the Sacred Heart a couple weeks ago
Heavy Metal was my first introduction to his stuff, way back as a preteen
― Chris S, Monday, 12 March 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
How's Madwoman?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 12 March 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah was looking at that in the shop, artwork looked a little rougher than usual...? couldn't tell if that was because it was maybe being reprinted bigger than originally or something.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 March 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
haven't gotten a chance to get to it yet, been reading a friend's copy of The Metabarons, but I think you're maybe right about the art looking blown up
― Chris S, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit I forgot that I ended up buying a bunch of Metabarons stuff on clearance I haven't yet read.
Not Moebius stuff, though :(
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Just heard, this is really tragic
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
just started the incal. terrific so far, love the way he captures the story.
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
After seeing the new Dune and then the Jodorowsky doc and rereading some collected Moebiuses I acquired a while back, I got a bit excited asked for The Incal for Xmas. Luckily I didn't go overboard with the pre/sequels or metabarons as, we'll, it's not very good. Inane, overstuffed and repetitive without any of the charm of, say, the Edena stories.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 31 December 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
Moebius is an unimpeachable talent but yeah, he has so much output and story-wise, often weak
― Nhex, Friday, 31 December 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
Yeah it’s lovely but boring and the ending is Lost-levek dumb
I think he’s a bit like Kirby, I look at the pictures and ignore the words. I liked Blueberry tho
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 31 December 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
"What if Hergé took a buttload of acid?"
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
Even if that floats your boat I wouldn't recommend the Humanoids 2020 paperback edition - the text is so thin and small I could barely read it except in the strongest light (lol old but I didn't think my eyesight was that bad); and the introduction is fatuous, vapid, and sexist (hmm maybe it's a good fit after all).
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 14 January 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link