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The legendary French artist Moebius, whose real name was Jean Giraud, passed away at age 73 from cancer. Born in the Paris suburb of in Nogent-sur-Marne in 1938, Giraud’s career spanned more than fifty years. His most famous creation was the Western anti-hero Blueberry, which first appeared in 1963 in France. Blueberry was a loner who traveled the post-Civil War American West after being framed for a murder he did not commit. The character started out as a racist but came to oppose discrimination of all kinds.
To American comics fans he is probably best known for a two-part Silver Surfer mini-series he scripted with Stan Lee, which won an Eisner Award, the comics equivalent of an Oscar, in 1989.
Giraud also worked on the concepts and storyboards for numerous science fiction films, including Alien,Tron, The Abyss, and The Fifth Element. In 1982, he also co-created the feature-length animated science fiction film Les Maîtres du temps, which was released in English as Time Masters.
