Nov 5, 2021Liked by Mike del Mundo, Mike Huddleston
I think it was '99 when I went to Angouleme. One of the two big exhibits was a Giraud/Moebius exhibit that was just out of this world. The other artists being feted was Crumb. The entrance was made to look like you were walking through an old mining tunnel, with Blueberry original art in small pockets. And then you came around a corner and saw young Moebius looking Little Prince like at his desk, running across a moonlit desert. Not a drawing or a painting, but a sculptural representation. Further in among allllllll the art by this one human was a wall of his Dune art, something I hadn't known existed until that point. When I discovered he and Jodorowski had collaborated on an attempt to film Dune, I almost wept. Thankfully there was the Moebius porn wing nearby to take my mind off it: each set of art was placed on a wall behind black leather stitched together just loose enough that you could peer through the gap and the laces and focus on the por-- art.
I will never forget that exhibit or that festival.
Moebius has given me so crazy-much, crazy-great artistic joy from swiping Heavy Metal issues from the local drug store magazine rack and leaving cash in its place as a pre-teen to the stuff I am still discovering in recent years. I was a bit older when I encountered him than when I first got to experience Barks and Segar, but Moebius hit me like a meteor. He had a similarly profound imagination mixed with such a high level of craft and output and the genius to tell stories without any text necessary. His stuff is some of the strongest proof that the definition of comics absolutely does not require text (I was going to joke that we shouldn't tell JH, but so many of my favorite comics of his have been wordless or nearly wordless). Even his Marvel posters each managed to tell a story in a single panel when you looked really close.
Anyway, thanks for this conversation and the art accompanying it.
I absolutely love that Gurney Halleck! And what does everyone think of the news that Taika Waititi is going to be adapting "The Incal"? I have faith but I keep trying to mix Moebius with his previous visual styles and I'm having troubles seeing it.
I think it was '99 when I went to Angouleme. One of the two big exhibits was a Giraud/Moebius exhibit that was just out of this world. The other artists being feted was Crumb. The entrance was made to look like you were walking through an old mining tunnel, with Blueberry original art in small pockets. And then you came around a corner and saw young Moebius looking Little Prince like at his desk, running across a moonlit desert. Not a drawing or a painting, but a sculptural representation. Further in among allllllll the art by this one human was a wall of his Dune art, something I hadn't known existed until that point. When I discovered he and Jodorowski had collaborated on an attempt to film Dune, I almost wept. Thankfully there was the Moebius porn wing nearby to take my mind off it: each set of art was placed on a wall behind black leather stitched together just loose enough that you could peer through the gap and the laces and focus on the por-- art.
I will never forget that exhibit or that festival.
I’m so jealous, wish I got to experience that.
Moebius has given me so crazy-much, crazy-great artistic joy from swiping Heavy Metal issues from the local drug store magazine rack and leaving cash in its place as a pre-teen to the stuff I am still discovering in recent years. I was a bit older when I encountered him than when I first got to experience Barks and Segar, but Moebius hit me like a meteor. He had a similarly profound imagination mixed with such a high level of craft and output and the genius to tell stories without any text necessary. His stuff is some of the strongest proof that the definition of comics absolutely does not require text (I was going to joke that we shouldn't tell JH, but so many of my favorite comics of his have been wordless or nearly wordless). Even his Marvel posters each managed to tell a story in a single panel when you looked really close.
Anyway, thanks for this conversation and the art accompanying it.
I absolutely love that Gurney Halleck! And what does everyone think of the news that Taika Waititi is going to be adapting "The Incal"? I have faith but I keep trying to mix Moebius with his previous visual styles and I'm having troubles seeing it.
Im so excited for that. I think Taika will kill it but I’m a Taika Stan so anything he makes is gold to me.
Ummmmmmmm did anyone notice https://gizmodo.com/a-rare-copy-of-jodorowskys-dune-book-is-up-for-auction-1848018620