this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
38 points (100.0% liked)

Moebius Art

8 readers
1 users here now

Anything Jean Giraud “Moebius” related:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
38
Now where are they going? (i.imgur.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow, where is this from?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Based on an image-match, I *think* it's called The Aviator, and is from one of Giraud's artbooks.

Partly why I like it is because it has kind of a Porco Rosso (Miyazaki) vibe, know what I mean? [pic]

@[email protected], any idea on this one, mate?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Very interesting, it's so Moebius for sure but the shadows, really good and all, doesn't feel like "old Moebius".

Edit: hah watched Porco Rosso last week (first time) had to check out the ending online 🥲😯😘

Edit2: would love to know the coloring techniques...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Valmond, I'm glad you like all that and think about it. That is the way.. <3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nope, sorry

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I just now stumbled across the picture by coincidence while going through the Moebius art-book Chaos. Only info given is that it´s from a series of commercial illustrations for Europe-Assistance. I did a little research and found out that it´s a travel insurance company based in Belgium. Further research revealed that the series was printed as an album, titled Europ Assistance : Une belle Aventure, nowadays a rare collectors item, sold privately for around 100€ sometimes.

Beautiful 20-page album presenting Europ Assistance, its history and results, etc. The kind of (in-house) promotional document that will no longer be produced at this level: more than just illustrations, Moebius has created a real universe to accompany this presentation. Exceptional!

Two more image from the series:

It reminds me a lot of Sur l’étoile, the exclusive short comic he did for the company anniversary of Citroën in 1983, which introduced Stel and Atan and later became the basis for the beloved The World of Edena series.

I assume this is also interesting for you @[email protected].

Considering we have this nice backstory now, I will probably crop it from Chaos myself and post it on [email protected] soon :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Aha, cool!
I love how research pays off like this sometimes.

It also kind of boggles my mind how I feel like I've been reading and looking at his stuff off & on for ~35 years, but looking at his bibliography, apparently I've only sampled the tip of the iceberg, or something like that. :S

Anyway, hope you're okay. I guess we haven't caught up much, lately. PM box is always open. :-)

Btw, I just did a little research on Captain Picard's crazy alphabet song today. If you haven't seen it and are interested, it's here: https://lemm.ee/post/23439052