Jean Giraud

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-05-08 (74 years old)

Deathday

2012-03-10

Place of Birth

Nogent, Haute-Marne, France

Jean Giraud

Biography

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/; 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, he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé. His most famous body of work as Gir conc...

Production

1981

Heavy Metal

as Characters

1992

2004

Renegade

as Author

2013

1994

I Can't Sleep

as Unit Production Manager

1988

Willow

as Conceptual Design

1979

Alien

as Conceptual Design

1982

Tron

as Conceptual Design

1997

The Fifth Element

as Conceptual Design

1982

Time Masters

as Art Direction

1982

Time Masters

as Adaptation

1991

Starwatcher

as Director

2005

1989

The Abyss

as Concept Artist

1982

Time Masters

as Writer

2013

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The Incal

as Graphic Novel

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