Artist · France
“Gir”
Jean Giraud.
France, 1938 to 2012
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 to 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 for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir, which he used for his 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.
Biodata
- Born
- 1938, Nogent-sur-Marne
- Died
- 2012, Montrouge
- Citizenship
- France
- Active
- 1954 to 1997
- Work
- comics artist, cartoonist, comics writer, screenwriter
- Also known as
- Gir, Mœbius
Jean Giraud, in numbers
Sketchbook
The essential Jean Giraud
16 works, decade by decade
1950s