(THOUSAND WORDS PROGRAM, JANUARY 21, 2010) Speaking of Moebius
we can remember the famous mathematician, famous surface described or a brilliant and unconventional French which also responds to its other name, Jean Giraud. Since this is a blog about comics seems obvious that we refer to last but I have no so clear that our Moebius is nothing but an embodiment of the surface, a surface with two sides that turns out to be only one.
Use for this narrator of his two names is arbitrary. Jean Giraud is the name used for more conventional and classic comic strip, the cartoonist of Lieutenant Blueberry. Moebius is the heteronymous that creates other worlds, other realities, the creator of Incal.
Moebius
The importance of knowing that we can assess his name was for the 80 in France was linked to the intelligentsia and considered by many, not a comic figure but a true philosopher and guru. And it is clear that the author of The Splice Loco, friend of that other mad called Jodorowsky, is not a conventional person.
Parisian and a citizen of many worlds, Jean Giraud started very young in the world of comics and illustration. Before going to live in Mexico with 16, and had seen their first stories published in France. After a journey of several years he lived on in Mexico, France, Germany and Algeria moved permanently to France in 1961 and began to collaborate on a series of stories about the West. When in 1964 Jean Michel Charlier joins to create El Teniente Blueberry starts a time of great commercial success that has allowed since then to live so well off. Although the greatest critical success as harvest as Moebius, has never forgotten or relegated to Blueberry, has always been a series that has taken great care in both the drawing and in the script, and not just professional jealousy, but who has admitted he has a particular fondness for this character for what he has learned the art of drawing and storytelling.
should not be a coincidence that his name be attached to the French journals have the greatest impact in the world of comics. A pile came from the hand of Goscinny and Uderzo. In Hara-Kiri became Moebius for to go beyond the actual Jean Giraud and Associates created the humanoid Metal-Hurlant. Ie, traveled from the comic classic of Franco-Belgian comics to fantasy overflowing with the best science fiction ever made, through the comic critical, experimental and satirical.
this author's work begins in a classical way, Lt. Blueberry, is a narrative about the American West, full of platitudes that often drink from the movie, but it is a work of very high quality. It tells the story of a loser, a Southerner, who is accused of killing his father must flee to avoid hanging. Adopts the name of Mike S. Blueberry and runs the Old West during the Civil War, living with the Apaches and is at the OK Corral in Tombstone mythical.
However, their production and Moebius is radically different. Not only for the drawing less realistic, less corseted, but because it opens one of the most influential careers that are known in science fiction. I love the subtle worlds, weightless and gentle, like soap bubbles, and so are their worlds, liquid, ethereal, full of magic and fantasy, tarot and ciberseres, and in these it is possible to traverse Tanhauser door and see zeta-ray glow in the dark. For posterity are The Airtight Garage, The Incal and its protagonist John Difool and Arzach . The worlds we imagine and create their vision of worlds most liquids, the connection between sleep and wakefulness, between fantasy and reality are indebted to the author, Jodorowsky, and the years he spent reading science fiction only, and also, no one refute, to marijuana.
Alien films, Star Wars, Willow, Little Nemo, The Fifth Element and Blade Runner have also received the support of Moebius or have seen their influence and collecting movies.
If we speak of two sides and duality, we can say that it has moved from western to science fiction, the comic classic to experimental, of a name to another, from loneliness to the partnership, of a universe to another. But, if we like ants in this picture and we started by any of them, did not arrive at the same point where off back off back without leaving the surface?.
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