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Born May 8, 1938 in Nogent-sur-Marne and died March 10, 2012 in Montrouge, is a French comic book author, known under his own name and under the pseudonyms of Mœbius and Gir. As Jean Giraud and Gir, he is the creator, with the screenwriter Jean-Michel Charlier, of the famous western comic strip Blueberry. Under the pseudonym Mœbius, he is the author and / or designer of science fiction comics, such as Le Garage hermétique, L'Incal or Arzach, which have earned him international recognition as far as the United States and the United States. Japan, usually not very receptive to European comics. Mœbius is one of the founders of the publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés, editor of the magazine Métal hurlant. He also participates in the graphic design of films like Alien and Tron. His impact on popular comics as Giraud as well as that of science fiction as Mœbius made him one of the major French-speaking cartoonists of the twentieth century. From the end of the 1960s, Jean Giraud illustrated a series of science fiction magazines and books in which he tackled more personal and less conventional themes. These illustrations are signed Mœbius, a pseudonym inspired by the Möbius ribbon invented by the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius. This pseudonym is used for the first time in a comic strip entitled L'Homme du XXIe siècle, published in May 1963 in issue 28 of Hara-Kiri. Mœbius appears ten times in Hara-Kiri until number 40, released in 1964. Subsequently, Jean Giraud will no longer use this signature on a comic strip until 1971, but he will continue to appear. use it for his science fiction illustrations. In 1970 he met Alejandro Jodorowsky for whom he produced the poster for the film El Topo.
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Born May 8, 1938 in Nogent-sur-Marne and died March 10, 2012 in Montrouge, is a French comic book author, known under his own name and under the pseudonyms of Mœbius and Gir. As Jean Giraud and Gir, he is the creator, with the screenwriter Jean-Michel Charlier, of the famous western comic strip Blueberry. Under the pseudonym Mœbius, he is the author and / or designer of science fiction comics, such as Le Garage hermétique, L'Incal or Arzach, which have earned him international recognition as far as the United States and the United States. Japan, usually not very receptive to European comics. Mœbius is one of the founders of the publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés, editor of the magazine Métal hurlant. He also participates in the graphic design of films like Alien and Tron. His impact on popular comics as Giraud as well as that of science fiction as Mœbius made him one of the major French-speaking cartoonists of the twentieth century. From the end of the 1960s, Jean Giraud illustrated a series of science fiction magazines and books in which he tackled more personal and less conventional themes. These illustrations are signed Mœbius, a pseudonym inspired by the Möbius ribbon invented by the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius. This pseudonym is used for the first time in a comic strip entitled L'Homme du XXIe siècle, published in May 1963 in issue 28 of Hara-Kiri. Mœbius appears ten times in Hara-Kiri until number 40, released in 1964. Subsequently, Jean Giraud will no longer use this signature on a comic strip until 1971, but he will continue to appear. use it for his science fiction illustrations. In 1970 he met Alejandro Jodorowsky for whom he produced the poster for the film El Topo.

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The year of birth of the artist is: 1938