He was a sweet man. I met him at a signing at Forbidden Planet in NYC, brought a postcard because that was all I could afford, and he did a full sketch on the back.
not sure about that Moebius went on to Japan and came back with tons of manga he got fascinated he promoted manga in france and then there are influences on both sides even before that with cubism and japonism but most of all, Miyazaki and Moebius seem to share a lot in common more than Otomo
Yea, well it's been quite documented, and OTmo has been outspoken about it. See: www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-04-09/akira-katsuhiro-otomo-remembers-french-artist-moebius Or: biblioklept.org/2015/03/05/flowers-a-short-moebius-inspired-comic-by-katsuhiro-otomo/ And if you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend Domu (the manga that precedes Akira), which is quite clear in its homage to Moebius, but also the beginning of Otomo developping his very own style and universe. As for Moebius and Manga he was surprisingly old school, conservative and very critical of the manga industry, which he did not consider for a long time as true artistry. Of course, I could relay some interviews, but do you understand French ? Anyway, it's easier to be sure about things when they are rooted in, you know, facts and examples. Cheers !
@@tomforsythe7024 'Politicians': aka, the folks who are actually willing to work to achieve their goals, instead of making excuses, blaming others, and simply complaining about it.
I once had the pleasure of meeting him at a con in London. He did a con sketch for a friend, and it was stunning watching him work. He drew hands so incredibly easily-just flicks of the pencil and the hand was done, fingers in proportion and in a complicated gesture. He also really liked Guinness
He was an incredibly fast artist from what I hear, and prolific. I wish I could have seen him work in person. I went to a con panel with Geoff Darrow and he spoke at length of how in awe of Moebius he was, especially how quickly he worked and with such detail.
@@brianjones8721 I wish Darrow and Moebius worked more together. I think they only collaborate on one project wish is impossible to find nowadays because it was a series of rare large prints ("La Cité de Feu").
It was impossible to mention everything he's done. I just wanted to flavor the review with a few facts and a few opinions. If someone becomes interested, they'll get to discover more themselves.
Mobley House Video Well.... That is not entirely true... most of the clothes was very much designed by Moebius in his Concepts for the film (as well as the Concepts made by the creator of Valérian te Laureline ) those concepts along with old Moebius design inspired or was used as reference when Gaulthier created the clothes. So it’s more that Gaulthier was inspired (or heavily copied) those design for the movie. Reason we hear about Gaulthier instead of the other guys is obvious. It’s better marketing to push a weird bit hip and world renown fashion designer instead of some weird (and perceived geeky) “unknown” comic (oh comic.. the thing only made for kids) creators.
It was also influenced by concept bt valierian artist. www.pipelinecomics.com/valerian-and-laureline-v15-the-circles-of-power/ Which was originally hired as concept designer for 5th element. If he was inspired by Moebius or Moebius by him is hard to say. Still in the timeline a lot of science do design was done in Valérian before Moebius enter the more sci di field. (Actually more after the coloboration on Alien. Remember it was o banning who wrote the script for the long tomorrow.
Fun fact: the demons on the album cover of SLAYER "Hell Awaits" were completely stolen from Moebious artwork from an issue of Heavy Metal by the artist Albert Cuellar. He also ripped of Frank Frazetta and Bernie Wrightson on the cover artwork he did for the SLAYER album "Live Undead."
Dollie's crazy outfit at 16:48 could absolutely be the inspiration behind Queen Amidala fashion. Both have a Japanese flair with literally out-of-this-world hairdo and accessories.
On Moebius' style: when doing SF comics, Moebius used a fine-nib pen to get the same line weights throughout the composition, both for the essential base drawing and hatching. Although he did rely heavily on colour in a lot of his work, his use of hatching, crosshatching and stipple depended upon the situation. For panels depicting panoramic urban or technological scenes, for example, he'd simply use the basic line as he was already putting in tremendous detail. If his backgrounds were less crowded or in closeups, he'd use hatching and the other techniques to add depth, such as with the panel when Club retrieves the box from the locker. Other times, he'd add in a few hatch strokes or dots just to spice things up a bit in what otherwise would be fairly blank panels with stark linework, or in panels of medium depth, to make the art more visually interesting. As he further refined his style over the years and experimented, his linework became sharper and he leaned more and more on colour and tonal shading to create visual depth and his shading strokes became even more minimalist, as is evident in his later SF works such as The World Of Adena and The Incal, and works he executed when he started using the graphic tablet. Now, when doing his Blueberry Western comics (as Jean Gir), he drew with the brush to get starker contrasts, heavier lineweights to emphasize shading direction and foreground objects or figures, economically rendered thick and thin hatch strokes, and to lay down heavy blacks for value. This was also a standard style with a lot of the Western and adventure comics that were being published in France, Belgium, Italy and Spain that was common to those genres (e.g. Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese; although Pratt, I think, mixed it up with both the brush and the pen for his panels).
His hatching was very reminiscent of Dorés engravings and is absolutely sublime. I knew a collector when I lived in France who had some of his original drawings and they were absolutely spectacular.
Yeah the Gir/Moebius distinction is fascinating. There's a cool non-Blueberry western he did as Gir called Mississippi River too, brush inked and much more traditional looking. It was actually published in Metal Hurlant (because Blueberry was on hiatus due to a royalties dispute with its publisher). But it was signed Gir since it was Gir style. The pen really transformed Gir into Moebius, that's where he got magical to me. I like Gir, but I LOVE Moebius. He was actually torn between the two identities, his traditional and avante-garde sensibilities separated out like a split personality. But Blueberry was actually his cash cow. In his own words, commercially Blueberry (ie Gir) was the sponsor of Moebius, the former selling 100k and the latter selling 10k.
The bread is no problem, but most will eat it with creamy cheese like camembert, rustique, blue, etc... and a glass of red wine! 🍷🔪 It's like eating pasta with nothing, but freshly baked bread can be good on it's own.
Yup. And from here it went all the way to the deepest levels of hell, except the fries. Seriously, having to eat that could make him hate France and us French. If one day I have to visit my family in the US, I'm really afraid of what "french" food I may find there.
@@ProductionARF No certainly not a baguette but some sort of arcturian scum that looks like baguette but has the texture os some spongy fongus, the most horrible baguette i have ever seen!!
1. Man speaks about one of the most important names in comics and the various ways he influenced pop culture. Perennial favourites like Alien, Star Wars and Blade Runner are discussed. 2. The audience: BUT TEH FRENSH TOOOAAASSST :D
david vincent yes, there are industrial baguettes in France and Western Europe to, we eat them everyday and we do not stop calling them a baguette because of that.
if you woulda said turned in sugar and cinnamon also it would have been what we in sweden call "fattiga riddare" or rougly; Poor (finanicially) knights. Often done on stale regular bread or Wienerbröd/danish pastry/Kopenhagener Gebäck A real quick and easy kids favourite
That was exactly what I thought. That was some burnt bread with some dark oil on top. Maybe the person that made it knew of the French term “pain perdu," meaning “lost bread." That half education still troubles me. To make french toast, you first dip slices of bread in a mixture of beaten eggs, milk, cinnamon and vanilla. Then you fry the egg-coated bread in a pan until browned. The person who made this version of "french toast" must have started a house fire and somewhere in between the raging flames, decided to toss bread into the inferno. Meanwhile, a large oil tanker crashed ashore and provided the syrup? Catastrophe? You bet!! French toast? The fuck is wrong with you?!?
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@@deadowl7709 Cinnamon ? Vanilla ? Still an americanized version. I can count on the fingers of a seal the recipes of french sweet cuisine that have cinnamon and vanilla (well, we use vanilla-sugar in some recipes to kil the egg flavour like in the "île flottante" and the only time I've used or seen used cinnamon is on Rice with Milk recipe "riz au lait"). It's sugar, egg and butter (real butter) and nothing else. Still, funny answer ! :)
@ There is a version of that in germany without sugar. It's called "Arme Ritter" (poor knights) and it's basically old, dry bread soaked in milk and egg, fried in a pan with salted butter. And if you were really poor, you left the eggs out.
@ , DEAD OWL's version is the same as how I've always made french toast, the cinnamon and vanilla are optional, we don't add the sugar with the egg/milk but it is served sometimes with a powdered sugar topping and always with plenty of syrup (usually maple syrup) available and yes I am an American.
Same! I i read the Incal first, then the long tomorrow second. I absolutely loved both, then i eventually read everything else that moebius made. His work was def. an inspiration in my own artworks and he will forever be remembered.
i am no artist.. but Moebius has captured my imagination since childhood. I read Heavy Metal mag for many years and always gravitated to Moebius. been collecting his prints and books for years. just very evocative.
I guess these are the "Arcturians" that were referred to by the Marines, in the mess hall scene, in James Cameron's "Aliens". Corp Hicks laughs at the other Marine for supposedly banging a "male", and since they are shapeshifters, it becomes clear why he would say that, "it didn't matter because it was an "Arcturian"..,Anybody think I'm right? I'm right....
You should maybe have mentioned, that Jean Giraud / Moebius has two very different Styles. he also signes his Work differently: He allways signed lt. Blueberry with "Gir" and his SciFi/Fantasy Work with "Moebius". His Work as Moebius is much more minimalistic than his work as Gir
Actually he nearly have 3, when he worked for editorial comics, kind of humoristic cartoons, he used his Gir name and drew a lot more simplistic, something between Sempé and Peanuts. Definitely a genius
Highly detailed backgrounds is the most salient Moebius trope to me. His backgrounds were often just as detailed as the foreground. There's a "see something new every time" aspect to his work.
Moebius didn't like to draw hair. I read that in an interview back when he drew a Silver Surfer comic for Marvel. You can notice that very few of his characters are seen without a hat. And many are bald
Quick update - I watched the He-Man Master of the univers documentary (netflix) yesterday and suprise suprise! ... Moebius did the early sketches of the main heros. Of course he redesigned them a bit and Mattel was not too happy LOL. This He-Man documentary is a must watch because we see the creative process behind the toy line, the TV show and the movie.
Actually not really, some historians said that it is from belgium, others from paris as " Pommes-Frites ", it depends, some said that it existed a long long time ago so no, fries aren't Belgian, at least there are no proof.
well French fries are definitely not french... we call them belgium here, but ulltimately Potatoes comes from south america Though fried shaped cutted potatoes seems to have an unclear origin in the western world, wether in belgium (XVII century) or france (1789) its more than probable that native americans came up with it earlier... But they're definitely not seen as french food nor belgium as it seems you guys eat most of them.
This is a thorny question. First, in France, the French fries terms do not exist, any more than Belgian fries: They are called simply french fries. For the historical part, I will base my memory on a reading that I made about it a few years ago (and I do not remember the reference). Basically, it was said that the first mentions written on fries come from Belgium, but a menu mentioning potatoes fried in goose fat about a decade after this Belgian writing was found in the region of Toulouse. The written records do not mention how long ago this practice existed in either of the two countries, it is for the moment impossible to decide this oh so thorny question! ;) Can be in a third country? ...: p
Love how Chris is grossed out by escargot and then cleanses his palate with A HOT DOG, which probably contains a load more disgusting things than the snail does.
True but he's use to the taste of hot dog. He seems to be grossed out not by the actual taste but by the idea of essentially eating bugs so he went for something more comforting to him.
I wish that comics were respected as an art form in the U.S. Like it is in Europe and the rest of the world. They are an American invention that should be celebrated.
They're not respected in France. Not at all by the politics or the so-called intellectuals, even the nerds are 65% mangas 30% US comics, 5% others stuffs. Most people don't even know who Moebius or Mezières or Jodorowsky are, they think the 5th element came out the mind of Besson by accident... French comics used to be something really huge in sci-fi, but they're out-fashioned since decades. Simply because the governments never helped them. Literature is respected over everything in France, our elits thinks culture is all about books and words. This is why they don't want music, they want french songs, they don't want cinema, they want french dialogues on screen... Our French cultural policy is made this way, and as a result we just had to support more and more stupid songs and stupid comedies. But they hate comics, especially fiction because there's beautiful poetic pictures in it. It tarnish the beauty of the sacred French language... And with science-fiction, imagine... The heroes aren't even Frenchmen, what a nightmare !
No sadly in Europe comics didn't get the attention they deserve; I always thought it is more respected in the US! hihi :-). But I think in both US and Europe comics are getting more attention
Yeah pretty much the same here in Germany. Comics are not respected. But lately the comic marked is growing at least in Germany. But Manga is the most read by young people and I am wondering why?
Hey Man, Moebius is my favourite artist of all time, and this was a great video. I have to say your channel is very underrated and super entertaining. Keep it up man
I was just thinking of how to explain the sound to Americans. The vocal in 'Dirt' without the 'r' at the end is the best I could come up with yet. Try it like: Mir-bee-us :D
I've heard imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but don't be fooled. So many stick with the mentally that "just because you have an idea what make you think it belongs to you?"
@@archive881 I have no big issues with that, except when they copyright the derivate ( to call it nicely... ) and threaten to sue anyone that makes something that resembles it.
I've always loved how he made his nature scenes beautiful, peaceful and good, with simple lines and less details. Then he would make technology scenes chaotic, cluttered and evil, with many lines and details.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res is the inspiration for the 5th element design... but again, Valerian and Laurelin is the inspiration for tons of stuff (Star war being a massive recipient without Lucas acknowledging it)
there is this sci-fi comic book called "ficcionario" by Horacio Altuna and Carlos Trillo that is also influenced by moebius but it is way more trashy, horacio altuna by the way is one amazing artist that is very popular in spain and france
@@mehernoshtarapore8902 Carlos Trillo used to work with everyone in Argentina. He was one of the most prolific authors ever, along Oesterheld, Robin Wood and Ray Collins.
As a French and huge fan of Moebius/Jean Giraud, I validate this video. I will add Moebius also worked on several animation movies among those the great "The Time Masters" directed by René Laloux (1982) of course the movie Heavy Metal from Ivan Reitman was widely inspired by his work (among other as Philippe Druillet, Richard Corben...). Have a look I found it in English : ua-cam.com/video/zbdJkheFVyk/v-deo.html
@@tomforsythe7024 not referring to shooting the Arcturian, at least... not with a gun (Lenny face). Rewatch Aliens when you've got a chance or are so inclined to hear how Cameron worked a reference to this story possibly/probably into the film.
Interestingly, Moebius’ mechanicals look very hand drawn. No rulers or straight edges at all and yet they look great. By the way if you want to eat escargot go to a REAL French restaurant. It is delicious. NEVER FROM A FRICKIN’ CAN!
Yup one of my greatest influences as well.. one story which jives with this vid is while I was working on Prometheus and meeting with Ridley the first time.. it was just the two of us meeting to discuss the engineers and ancestors of the Alien creature.. Ridley dropped “The long Tomorrow “ in front of me.. I had a big stupid smile on my face for two reasons. first I hadn’t seen it in such a long time and it brought back all kinds of happy feelings and Ridley was presenting it to my for influence for a certain sequence that was later cut from the film.. but I proposed we use that scene where Dolly transforms right on top of the guy..of course it would have been inverted for the Hollloway love scene ...anyway ...good stuff here..
Both Heavy Metal were canadian movies. But since we speak french we are very very aware of Mœbius work. Un fact of all europeen french speaking art and culture (popular or fine arts) Thats the beauty of being canadian.
5:15- Most importantly, he trusted his characters, props and settings form and structure to hold their own with limited linework. For me, that's amazing, since I always try to draw lines with varying width. So to see someone pull off simple lines for such dynamic work is pretty damn inspiring!
One of the best decisions i've ever taken as a comic book fan is to subscribe to your channel man, you take comicbooks as a form of art not just as entertainment and i thank you for that.
Awesome episode Chris! I wish you would do a Milo Manara or a Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri episode but since they make erotic comics I guess that wouldn't fly here in youtube...bummer cause they are amazing artists
Milo Manara did make at least one album that is not primarily erotic - actually I am disappointed he then decided to just concentrate on butts. Very talented.
Incredible how one guy can be this influential and only known to those interested in the subject matter. I mean - people love Star Wars, love Blade Runner, the 5th Element, etc. but they cheer for the directors, not the originators of these stories or visuals. Blade Runner is a P.K.Dick story. Some of his story material and Giraud's visions go together so well - I wish Moebius had illustrated some of Dick's short stories. There is one, for example, where an alien "blob" looking race has their spies transmutated into humans, while the human spies are mutated into blobs. After the war a blob and a human spy marry and miraculously have kids, which are partly human, partly blob. And though the kids are stable in their shape, the parents transform back to their natural shape every couple or hours and just share certain hours of the day in the same form. It's such a crazy story, so I won't spoil how it ends. But just reading this should make you realize how close P-K. Dick's stories come to matching Moebius' visuals. I wish there had been such a cooperation, but alas it is too late for either of them to make it happen.
Don't let that fear get to you. Frog legs have a very mild taste, mostly comparable to something like chicken. The texture is also just that of a tender meat. There's absolutely nothing to be worried about except that, at worst, it may not be your new favorite food.
I love your vlog episodes. I love your examination of Mobius. I get annoyed at Americans approaching foreign food with the expectation that it will smell or taste bad - kind of snobbish.
I have just noticed that dave gibbons also took some inspiration for the distopian reality of Watchmen, specially the cloth looks very similar to the moebius style.
Besides Moebius, the lightsabers in Star Wars were also greatly influenced by the "blade of flame" in the Spacehounds of IPC in fact Star Wars was very much influenced by the Lensman series and their author E.E. Smith who is considered the father of space opera science fiction.
Lots of movies producers and studios loved Moebius artworks, so instead of rob him, why just not hire him?, that's really sad and f*cked up, there's a video in youtube called ''what star wars owes to french comics'' that goes more deep
There's nothing wrong with taking inspiration. If you want something more in the same style, then hire him for specific illustrations, as many people did.
Just gone and bought a copy of Heavy Metal from 1980 which was at the time The Airtight Garage was first printed (I think haha). Didn't know anything about Moebius so thanks for this video!
@@UCKY5 Indeed i'ts Möbius. That vovel is rarely used in english at all. I can find only one old english word coördinated, but even that is not used anymore with the vovel. Example of the vovel in wikimedia: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel.ogg
How single most influential effect was on Fifth Element- the visual style of which is essentially identical to his original Heavy Metal comic “Blade Runner”. From which Ridley Scott stole the name, but nearly none of the aesthetic. And you don’t mention it. And don’t SHOW it.
I don't think that's how you pronounce Moebius. I think it's Moe (like Simpsons Moe)- bi (like the bi in bisexual)- us (like... Us.) Otherwise, great video!
Great video! I love Moebius. I recomend the French SciFi animated film "Les Maîtres du temps" (The Masters of time) for which Moebius did the design and co-wrote the script. Has a lot of the tropes you presented. Very trippy at parts and it scared the hell outa me as a child.
Watched your Love and Rockets video and was reminded I'm an alcoholic lol. Would be cool if you did something on Tim Vigils "Faust" and "Druuna" from Heavy Metal magazine. Might be pricy to track those 80s issues down, but both are amazing.
fun fact, "french toast", is not French, the ancient roman were eating it thousands of years ago, the more modern version of it was being made in England in the early 17th century, the only reason why we call in "French toast" is because it was the French who brought the recipe to America.
The episode I was hoping for! Moebius is just some brilliant stuff! Apart from that, you gave a look of genuine discomfort while preparing for a bite o escargot lol 😂 I don't blame ya, I never tried it either
10:45 quiver-shivs might have helped influence lightsabers a bit but this probably came out after the dune series where they have those vibrating knives that at least in name sound like inspiration for quiver-shivs as while they glow (possibly from heating up or from being made of plasma blades) the name makes it sound like they vibrate or make a really fast movement in the blade that aids cutting
Comic Tropes : hello, i'm french, i love Jean Giraud 's work an i think he is "the" master of "Bande dessinée" ;). I didn't know that he has influenced Gibson and Carpenter, thank you for this video.
You make a decent, insightful video about an iconic French artist and all the arseholes in the comments can moan about is your pronunciation of Moebius and the food you're eating? Jesus, make your own videos and see if you can do better..
Nice job ! Watch the "Heavy Metal" movie, you'll see a version of the story you reviewed where the main character is a cabbie, not a detective. Which also happens to be the main character in "Fifth Element". Hmmm, ... I think I see a pattern here ...
I shed a tear everytime is see an american eating "french food" that looks like it's made in china. Because we really want you to taste the real deal. Imagine if every US grandma made [Typical Grandma Dessert] and i went by eating a knock off of it, knowing little; you would be sad too :P
Sorry, i'm french guy, and i don't even seen something like a "french toast" in my whole life like this thing 8:18 made with sirup... But for all the video, everything's fine nice
10:28 14:30 17:57 sirious ? Why all that things has to be french ? it's hilarious, thanks :) We don't eat snails, it's just to sell some disgusting things like shrimps, but some person continue to buy it.
The baguette looks disgusting, the bread is way too dense and the crust not crusty enough. Your french toast isn't anything close to french toast, it's a regular toast with syrup. Macdonald fries, no comment, of course they're disgusting. Your mustard is actually sweet american mustard, french only by the name. All kinds of wrong here.
You mentioned adventures of tintin but I don't think you ever made any videos on that comic sadly. It is one of the only comics I read as a kid and I would love to see you disect it.
May be they are may be they aren't both nations claim them without ever proving anything, but one thing is for sure they are better in Belgium. I'm French from the Belgium border.
This is a thorny question. First, in France, the French fries terms do not exist, any more than Belgian fries: They are called simply fries. For the historical part, I will base my memory on a reading that I made about it a few years ago (and I do not remember the reference). Basically, it was said that the first mentions written on fries come from Belgium, but a menu mentioning potatoes fried in goose fat about a decade after this Belgian writing was found in the region of Toulouse. The written records do not mention how long ago this practice existed in either of the two countries, it is for the moment impossible to decide this oh so thorny question! ;) Can be in a third country? ...: p
. The written records do not mention how long ago this practice existed in either of the two countries, it is for the moment impossible to decide this oh so thorny question! ;) Can be in a third country? ...: p
I like what you have to say about the comic world, but if you eat your lunch over another comic video while doing another poor reading of someone's beautiful Art, I might need to slap you via dictation!
I love Moebius! I discovered him back in thhe 90´s, and have his series Incal (published in Portuguese by Meriberica), something in Spanish, and once I got an isseu by Dark Horse comics that is a collection of many pieces (Is the man good?, Trip to Pharagonescia and others). He´s one of the best ever! Thanks for the tribute. Bye!
He was a sweet man. I met him at a signing at Forbidden Planet in NYC, brought a postcard because that was all I could afford, and he did a full sketch on the back.
That's awesome
Jealous 🦦
wish I could met him
What a down to earth artist !
Omg! Would you like to trade that postcard? I don't have money, but you can have my right arm.
Moebius is also a major inspiration to Otomo, the artist behind Akira
not sure about that
Moebius went on to Japan
and came back with tons of manga he got fascinated
he promoted manga in france
and then there are influences on both sides
even before that with cubism and japonism
but most of all, Miyazaki and Moebius seem to share a lot in common
more than Otomo
Yea, well it's been quite documented, and OTmo has been outspoken about it. See:
www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-04-09/akira-katsuhiro-otomo-remembers-french-artist-moebius
Or:
biblioklept.org/2015/03/05/flowers-a-short-moebius-inspired-comic-by-katsuhiro-otomo/
And if you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend Domu (the manga that precedes Akira), which is quite clear in its homage to Moebius, but also the beginning of Otomo developping his very own style and universe.
As for Moebius and Manga he was surprisingly old school, conservative and very critical of the manga industry, which he did not consider for a long time as true artistry. Of course, I could relay some interviews, but do you understand French ?
Anyway, it's easier to be sure about things when they are rooted in, you know, facts and examples. Cheers !
I was thinking of Tetsuo when I looked at the arcturan.
Zaka Toto Ha make sense!
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Moebius' tales take place in a fantastic world where politicians have brains.
Thank you… made my day!
Maybe, but it's our own fault... we elect 'em (aka, "Every country gets the gubmint it deserves").
@@matonmongo No matter what system you use, politicians run everything.
@@tomforsythe7024 'Politicians': aka, the folks who are actually willing to work to achieve their goals, instead of making excuses, blaming others, and simply complaining about it.
@@matonmongo You win for most unrealistic premise in Sci Fi history, beating out the Matrix.
I once had the pleasure of meeting him at a con in London. He did a con sketch for a friend, and it was stunning watching him work. He drew hands so incredibly easily-just flicks of the pencil and the hand was done, fingers in proportion and in a complicated gesture.
He also really liked Guinness
He was an incredibly fast artist from what I hear, and prolific. I wish I could have seen him work in person. I went to a con panel with Geoff Darrow and he spoke at length of how in awe of Moebius he was, especially how quickly he worked and with such detail.
@@brianjones8721 I wish Darrow and Moebius worked more together. I think they only collaborate on one project wish is impossible to find nowadays because it was a series of rare large prints ("La Cité de Feu").
You didn't mention anything about how Moebius' art influenced the movie , "The Fifth Element".
It was impossible to mention everything he's done. I just wanted to flavor the review with a few facts and a few opinions. If someone becomes interested, they'll get to discover more themselves.
ComicTropes plus the creative team form goth element openly stated Moebius as an influence. So. It’s not as unknown.
Mobley House Video Well.... That is not entirely true... most of the clothes was very much designed by Moebius in his Concepts for the film (as well as the Concepts made by the creator of Valérian te Laureline ) those concepts along with old Moebius design inspired or was used as reference when Gaulthier created the clothes. So it’s more that Gaulthier was inspired (or heavily copied) those design for the movie.
Reason we hear about Gaulthier instead of the other guys is obvious. It’s better marketing to push a weird bit hip and world renown fashion designer instead of some weird (and perceived geeky) “unknown” comic (oh comic.. the thing only made for kids) creators.
It was also influenced by concept bt valierian artist.
www.pipelinecomics.com/valerian-and-laureline-v15-the-circles-of-power/
Which was originally hired as concept designer for 5th element.
If he was inspired by Moebius or Moebius by him is hard to say. Still in the timeline a lot of science do design was done in Valérian before Moebius enter the more sci di field. (Actually more after the coloboration on Alien. Remember it was o banning who wrote the script for the long tomorrow.
More than influenced, he was heavily involved in the design and pre-production of the movie.
Fun fact: the demons on the album cover of SLAYER "Hell Awaits" were completely stolen from Moebious artwork from an issue of Heavy Metal by the artist Albert Cuellar. He also ripped of Frank Frazetta and Bernie Wrightson on the cover artwork he did for the SLAYER album "Live Undead."
Dollie's crazy outfit at 16:48 could absolutely be the inspiration behind Queen Amidala fashion. Both have a Japanese flair with literally out-of-this-world hairdo and accessories.
On Moebius' style: when doing SF comics, Moebius used a fine-nib pen to get the same line weights throughout the composition, both for the essential base drawing and hatching. Although he did rely heavily on colour in a lot of his work, his use of hatching, crosshatching and stipple depended upon the situation. For panels depicting panoramic urban or technological scenes, for example, he'd simply use the basic line as he was already putting in tremendous detail. If his backgrounds were less crowded or in closeups, he'd use hatching and the other techniques to add depth, such as with the panel when Club retrieves the box from the locker. Other times, he'd add in a few hatch strokes or dots just to spice things up a bit in what otherwise would be fairly blank panels with stark linework, or in panels of medium depth, to make the art more visually interesting. As he further refined his style over the years and experimented, his linework became sharper and he leaned more and more on colour and tonal shading to create visual depth and his shading strokes became even more minimalist, as is evident in his later SF works such as The World Of Adena and The Incal, and works he executed when he started using the graphic tablet.
Now, when doing his Blueberry Western comics (as Jean Gir), he drew with the brush to get starker contrasts, heavier lineweights to emphasize shading direction and foreground objects or figures, economically rendered thick and thin hatch strokes, and to lay down heavy blacks for value. This was also a standard style with a lot of the Western and adventure comics that were being published in France, Belgium, Italy and Spain that was common to those genres (e.g. Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese; although Pratt, I think, mixed it up with both the brush and the pen for his panels).
His hatching was very reminiscent of Dorés engravings and is absolutely sublime. I knew a collector when I lived in France who had some of his original drawings and they were absolutely spectacular.
Yeah the Gir/Moebius distinction is fascinating. There's a cool non-Blueberry western he did as Gir called Mississippi River too, brush inked and much more traditional looking. It was actually published in Metal Hurlant (because Blueberry was on hiatus due to a royalties dispute with its publisher). But it was signed Gir since it was Gir style. The pen really transformed Gir into Moebius, that's where he got magical to me. I like Gir, but I LOVE Moebius. He was actually torn between the two identities, his traditional and avante-garde sensibilities separated out like a split personality. But Blueberry was actually his cash cow. In his own words, commercially Blueberry (ie Gir) was the sponsor of Moebius, the former selling 100k and the latter selling 10k.
Knowing how serious the French take their foods, at least one of them got really sad when they saw that baguette.
Nah it was the most French food in the video...and it look like the real deal idk if it tasted as good as ours thought
The bread is no problem, but most will eat it with creamy cheese like camembert, rustique, blue, etc... and a glass of red wine! 🍷🔪 It's like eating pasta with nothing, but freshly baked bread can be good on it's own.
This host knows his business for the most part,but his annoyance is overwhelming.
Yup. And from here it went all the way to the deepest levels of hell, except the fries. Seriously, having to eat that could make him hate France and us French. If one day I have to visit my family in the US, I'm really afraid of what "french" food I may find there.
@@ProductionARF No certainly not a baguette but some sort of arcturian scum that looks like baguette but has the texture os some spongy fongus, the most horrible baguette i have ever seen!!
1. Man speaks about one of the most important names in comics and the various ways he influenced pop culture. Perennial favourites like Alien, Star Wars and Blade Runner are discussed.
2. The audience: BUT TEH FRENSH TOOOAAASSST
:D
That baguette looked very industrial tho
david vincent yes, there are industrial baguettes in France and Western Europe to, we eat them everyday and we do not stop calling them a baguette because of that.
Waaahhaaahhaaa Salvador Dali would have been proud !
The french toast didn't look good tbh.
Seemed like normal toast with syrup 🤔
Indeed...looked and sounded like normal toast.
I'm not sure if he's even aware that it's supposed to be drowned in milk and egg before frying?!
yeah and definitely not french
we don't eat fake bread
and that baguette definitely looked industrialised..
To be honest all the food looked like shit and definitely not french
Fyodor Karamazov
It's because all the food was shit and defintely not french :(
if you woulda said turned in sugar and cinnamon also it would have been what we in sweden call "fattiga riddare" or rougly; Poor (finanicially) knights. Often done on stale regular bread or Wienerbröd/danish pastry/Kopenhagener Gebäck A real quick and easy kids favourite
That wasn't french toast.
That was exactly what I thought. That was some burnt bread with some dark oil on top. Maybe the person that made it knew of the French term “pain perdu," meaning “lost bread." That half education still troubles me. To make french toast, you first dip slices of bread in a mixture of beaten eggs, milk, cinnamon and vanilla. Then you fry the egg-coated bread in a pan until browned. The person who made this version of "french toast" must have started a house fire and somewhere in between the raging flames, decided to toss bread into the inferno. Meanwhile, a large oil tanker crashed ashore and provided the syrup?
Catastrophe? You bet!!
French toast? The fuck is wrong with you?!?
@@deadowl7709 Cinnamon ? Vanilla ? Still an americanized version. I can count on the fingers of a seal the recipes of french sweet cuisine that have cinnamon and vanilla (well, we use vanilla-sugar in some recipes to kil the egg flavour like in the "île flottante" and the only time I've used or seen used cinnamon is on Rice with Milk recipe "riz au lait"). It's sugar, egg and butter (real butter) and nothing else. Still, funny answer ! :)
@ There is a version of that in germany without sugar. It's called "Arme Ritter" (poor knights) and it's basically old, dry bread soaked in milk and egg, fried in a pan with salted butter. And if you were really poor, you left the eggs out.
@ , DEAD OWL's version is the same as how I've always made french toast, the cinnamon and vanilla are optional, we don't add the sugar with the egg/milk but it is served sometimes with a powdered sugar topping and always with plenty of syrup (usually maple syrup) available and yes I am an American.
none of those foods are French by anything but name
"The Incal" is one the first things to read from Moebius
and the long tomorrow ......... enjoy........
Same! I i read the Incal first, then the long tomorrow second. I absolutely loved both, then i eventually read everything else that moebius made. His work was def. an inspiration in my own artworks and he will forever be remembered.
@@coffeeuwu7127 Moebius' artwork in those 2 are basically how I imagine everything to look when I read anything remotely cyberpunky
i am no artist.. but Moebius has captured my imagination since childhood. I read Heavy Metal mag for many years and always gravitated to Moebius. been collecting his prints and books for years. just very evocative.
I guess these are the "Arcturians" that were referred to by the Marines, in the mess hall scene, in James Cameron's "Aliens". Corp Hicks laughs at the other Marine for supposedly banging a "male", and since they are shapeshifters, it becomes clear why he would say that, "it didn't matter because it was an "Arcturian"..,Anybody think I'm right? I'm right....
That was Spunkmeyr picking on the guy, not Hicks. But yeah, I thought the same thing. "So THAT'S the arcturiens they were talking about."
That was a nice Easter Egg
You should maybe have mentioned, that Jean Giraud / Moebius has two very different Styles. he also signes his Work differently: He allways signed lt. Blueberry with "Gir" and his SciFi/Fantasy Work with "Moebius". His Work as Moebius is much more minimalistic than his work as Gir
His genious still living through our eyes on his creativity
Actually he nearly have 3, when he worked for editorial comics, kind of humoristic cartoons, he used his Gir name and drew a lot more simplistic, something between Sempé and Peanuts. Definitely a genius
He sometimes signed as "M.", "Moeb", "Bius" and even under his own name.
He also spelt the title of every Arzach comic differently. For example, he'd spell it Arzak, Arsach, Arsac, etc
when I was a teenager during the 80's/90's, "L'incal" was a big thing amongst french teenagers.
That "French Toast" you ate made me short-circuit from shock and confusion.
Yes -- invisible egg?? Maybe French Canadian toast...
Highly detailed backgrounds is the most salient Moebius trope to me. His backgrounds were often just as detailed as the foreground. There's a "see something new every time" aspect to his work.
Moebius didn't like to draw hair. I read that in an interview back when he drew a Silver Surfer comic for Marvel. You can notice that very few of his characters are seen without a hat. And many are bald
He could really do some hats, though.
Not so true, in Blueberry, every character has hair, especialy Bluebery himself who was very a very hairy guy...
He didn't like to draw hair... or he was more into hats ?
Well, well, we here have expert :D Jan do not like to draw many things, but he draw it with ease and with superior quality.
Maybe it's because was bald?
The “D” in Giraud and the “T” in Hurlant are SILENT!
Quick update - I watched the He-Man Master of the univers documentary (netflix) yesterday and suprise suprise! ... Moebius did the early sketches of the main heros. Of course he redesigned them a bit and Mattel was not too happy LOL. This He-Man documentary is a must watch because we see the creative process behind the toy line, the TV show and the movie.
I don't know how many people already remarked on that, but "French Fries" are actually from Belgium!
Actually not really, some historians said that it is from belgium, others from paris as " Pommes-Frites ", it depends, some said that it existed a long long time ago so no, fries aren't Belgian, at least there are no proof.
My dear old uncle Herman says that French Fries should be German.
well French fries are definitely not french...
we call them belgium here, but ulltimately
Potatoes comes from south america
Though fried shaped cutted potatoes
seems to have an unclear origin in the western world, wether in belgium (XVII century) or france (1789) its more than probable that native americans came up with it earlier...
But they're definitely not seen as french food nor belgium as it seems you guys eat most of them.
This is a thorny question. First, in France, the French fries terms do not exist, any more than Belgian fries: They are called simply french fries. For the historical part, I will base my memory on a reading that I made about it a few years ago (and I do not remember the reference). Basically, it was said that the first mentions written on fries come from Belgium, but a menu mentioning potatoes fried in goose fat about a decade after this Belgian writing was found in the region of Toulouse. The written records do not mention how long ago this practice existed in either of the two countries, it is for the moment impossible to decide this oh so thorny question! ;) Can be in a third country? ...: p
Google translator made me a bad joke: I wanted to say: "They are called simply fries"
Moebius is my favourite graphic artist of all time. Philippe Druillet comes a good second . . .
Love how Chris is grossed out by escargot and then cleanses his palate with A HOT DOG, which probably contains a load more disgusting things than the snail does.
Lol.
True but he's use to the taste of hot dog. He seems to be grossed out not by the actual taste but by the idea of essentially eating bugs so he went for something more comforting to him.
I wish that comics were respected as an art form in the U.S. Like it is in Europe and the rest of the world. They are an American invention that should be celebrated.
I asked my nephew if he read comics and he said ,"no I read real books."
Ken Ives oh, man! Kids are harsh! lol
They're not respected in France. Not at all by the politics or the so-called intellectuals, even the nerds are 65% mangas 30% US comics, 5% others stuffs.
Most people don't even know who Moebius or Mezières or Jodorowsky are, they think the 5th element came out the mind of Besson by accident...
French comics used to be something really huge in sci-fi, but they're out-fashioned since decades.
Simply because the governments never helped them.
Literature is respected over everything in France, our elits thinks culture is all about books and words. This is why they don't want music, they want french songs, they don't want cinema, they want french dialogues on screen... Our French cultural policy is made this way, and as a result we just had to support more and more stupid songs and stupid comedies. But they hate comics, especially fiction because there's beautiful poetic pictures in it. It tarnish the beauty of the sacred French language... And with science-fiction, imagine... The heroes aren't even Frenchmen, what a nightmare !
No sadly in Europe comics didn't get the attention they deserve; I always thought it is more respected in the US! hihi :-). But I think in both US and Europe comics are getting more attention
Yeah pretty much the same here in Germany. Comics are not respected. But lately the comic marked is growing at least in Germany. But Manga is the most read by young people and I am wondering why?
Hey Man, Moebius is my favourite artist of all time, and this was a great video. I have to say your channel is very underrated and super entertaining. Keep it up man
It's "MObius", not "Moybius" - other than that, good video!
It's driving me crazy.
I was just thinking of how to explain the sound to Americans. The vocal in 'Dirt' without the 'r' at the end is the best I could come up with yet. Try it like: Mir-bee-us :D
and also Yodorovsky not jodorovsky
it's pronounced "möbius"
Moebius is the correct pronunciation of Jean Henri Gaston Giraud /artist, designer, creator.
ja, the silver surfer story is great. Also Incal I re-read the series every few year like my personal celebration for Moebius.
I think the quiver-shivs are more like vibro-blades than lightsabers but I'm nit-picking
"Influenced by" in Hollywood is a fancy term for copied or stolen...
I've heard imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but don't be fooled. So many stick with the mentally that "just because you have an idea what make you think it belongs to you?"
@@archive881 I have no big issues with that, except when they copyright the derivate ( to call it nicely... ) and threaten to sue anyone that makes something that resembles it.
Avon Pendragon i hate to break it to you but all art is stolen. 99% of what you make has been done before, its the 1% you add on that makes it unique
I've always loved how he made his nature scenes beautiful, peaceful and good, with simple lines and less details. Then he would make technology scenes chaotic, cluttered and evil, with many lines and details.
"The fifth element" seems coming out of this "Long Tomorrow"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res is the inspiration for the 5th element design... but again, Valerian and Laurelin is the inspiration for tons of stuff (Star war being a massive recipient without Lucas acknowledging it)
I met Moebius when he attended my college's museum when it was displaying his work. He was an interesting guy.
That's got to be amazing.
there is this sci-fi comic book called "ficcionario" by Horacio Altuna and Carlos Trillo that is also influenced by moebius but it is way more trashy, horacio altuna by the way is one amazing artist that is very popular in spain and france
Carlos trilo used to work with Eduardo risso in Argentina Lorena escallier
@@mehernoshtarapore8902 Carlos Trillo used to work with everyone in Argentina. He was one of the most prolific authors ever, along Oesterheld, Robin Wood and Ray Collins.
The thumbnail drawing looks like a piece from the comic novel “Druuna.”
Serpieri is from the same era and was certainly influenced by Moebius
His art style reminds me of Winsor McCay.
When he said French Fries, I was like 'You Motherf-' then I realized he's being sardonic. Terrific video.
Aka, "Freedom Fries"!
Invented in the Netherlands, perfected in Belgium
@@ParadoxapocalypSatan Yep, actually that's true... and then later 'popularized' in the U.S. ("Over A Trillion Sold")!
I got unreasonably upset about the French fries
Loki Lyesmith Oh no! What's bad about French fries? Was it the brand I selected?
skunkape you know what you did lol
Lol
even more than the "french" toast? that shit is /clearly/ canadian toast
Perhaps if was lamb fries, made in France, that would be OK. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_fries)
As a French and huge fan of Moebius/Jean Giraud, I validate this video. I will add Moebius also worked on several animation movies among those the great "The Time Masters" directed by René Laloux (1982) of course the movie Heavy Metal from Ivan Reitman was widely inspired by his work (among other as Philippe Druillet, Richard Corben...). Have a look I found it in English :
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To quote James Cameron's Aliens "It don't matter when it's Arcturian".
Arcturian Lives Matter!
@@tomforsythe7024 not referring to shooting the Arcturian, at least... not with a gun (Lenny face). Rewatch Aliens when you've got a chance or are so inclined to hear how Cameron worked a reference to this story possibly/probably into the film.
Interestingly, Moebius’ mechanicals look very hand drawn. No rulers or straight edges at all and yet they look great. By the way if you want to eat escargot go to a REAL French restaurant. It is delicious. NEVER FROM A FRICKIN’ CAN!
Also looks like Moebius inspired Hirohiko Araki.
Moebius inspired every Japanese mangaka that was around in the 70s and 80s. Seriously.
The literal vampire
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 he cannot die and also he MUSTN'T
it was orson welles, not marlon brando
Indigo halm thank you
eh same diff. two fat guys lol
@@0oidiedinatimemachineo024 What was that comment even? Wut?
this guy is really likeable(UA-camr)
*Obligatory haugh haugh baguette, cheese, and wine comment*
-The Spy, Probably-
Love Moebius. Love Comic Tropes. Keep 'em coming Chris.
Do some CT about other European creators like Milo Manara, Hugo Prat or Sergio topi
Moebius, one of the my favorites. His rainbow palette is a classic, it's all over US comics and movies.
Yup one of my greatest influences as well.. one story which jives with this vid is while I was working on Prometheus and meeting with Ridley the first time.. it was just the two of us meeting to discuss the engineers and ancestors of the Alien creature.. Ridley dropped “The long Tomorrow “ in front of me.. I had a big stupid smile on my face for two reasons. first I hadn’t seen it in such a long time and it brought back all kinds of happy feelings and Ridley was presenting it to my for influence for a certain sequence that was later cut from the film.. but I proposed we use that scene where Dolly transforms right on top of the guy..of course it would have been inverted for the Hollloway love scene ...anyway ...good stuff here..
Thanks for BR:2049.
Anyone see Heavy Metal... like the movie?
love that film. The Loc-Nar lol
It's my Loc-Nar
or it's sequel, Heavy Metal 2000?
Both Heavy Metal were canadian movies. But since we speak french we are very very aware of Mœbius work. Un fact of all europeen french speaking art and culture (popular or fine arts) Thats the beauty of being canadian.
The Harry Canyon part of the movie looks like it took a lot of inspiration from this story as well.
The "escar-go away" is enough reason to give this video a thumbs up.
5:15- Most importantly, he trusted his characters, props and settings form and structure to hold their own with limited linework. For me, that's amazing, since I always try to draw lines with varying width. So to see someone pull off simple lines for such dynamic work is pretty damn inspiring!
One of the best decisions i've ever taken as a comic book fan is to subscribe to your channel man, you take comicbooks as a form of art not just as entertainment and i thank you for that.
Awesome episode Chris! I wish you would do a Milo Manara or a Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri episode but since they make erotic comics I guess that wouldn't fly here in youtube...bummer cause they are amazing artists
Milo Manara did make at least one album that is not primarily erotic - actually I am disappointed he then decided to just concentrate on butts. Very talented.
Incredible how one guy can be this influential and only known to those interested in the subject matter. I mean - people love Star Wars, love Blade Runner, the 5th Element, etc. but they cheer for the directors, not the originators of these stories or visuals. Blade Runner is a P.K.Dick story. Some of his story material and Giraud's visions go together so well - I wish Moebius had illustrated some of Dick's short stories. There is one, for example, where an alien "blob" looking race has their spies transmutated into humans, while the human spies are mutated into blobs. After the war a blob and a human spy marry and miraculously have kids, which are partly human, partly blob. And though the kids are stable in their shape, the parents transform back to their natural shape every couple or hours and just share certain hours of the day in the same form. It's such a crazy story, so I won't spoil how it ends. But just reading this should make you realize how close P-K. Dick's stories come to matching Moebius' visuals. I wish there had been such a cooperation, but alas it is too late for either of them to make it happen.
No frog legs?
You're missing out man, they are super tasty
Good episode though, I love Moebius
SeresTheZocker I was too sc-sc-sc-scared!
I'd eat frog legs long before escargot.
Don't let that fear get to you. Frog legs have a very mild taste, mostly comparable to something like chicken. The texture is also just that of a tender meat. There's absolutely nothing to be worried about except that, at worst, it may not be your new favorite food.
I love your vlog episodes. I love your examination of Mobius. I get annoyed at Americans approaching foreign food with the expectation that it will smell or taste bad - kind of snobbish.
I have just noticed that dave gibbons also took some inspiration for the distopian reality of Watchmen, specially the cloth looks very similar to the moebius style.
Good spot. There are a LOT of similarities.
Besides Moebius, the lightsabers in Star Wars were also greatly influenced by the "blade of flame" in the Spacehounds of IPC in fact Star Wars was very much influenced by the Lensman series and their author E.E. Smith who is considered the father of space opera science fiction.
Lots of movies producers and studios loved Moebius artworks, so instead of rob him, why just not hire him?, that's really sad and f*cked up, there's a video in youtube called ''what star wars owes to french comics'' that goes more deep
Moebius is dead, so that might be a challenge.
Uhm, I think there's two types of things called like this, it's "Inspiration" and "references"
ELVISFX many directors hired him for movies like Alien, Tron, Abyss, etc.
There's nothing wrong with taking inspiration. If you want something more in the same style, then hire him for specific illustrations, as many people did.
Just gone and bought a copy of Heavy Metal from 1980 which was at the time The Airtight Garage was first printed (I think haha). Didn't know anything about Moebius so thanks for this video!
I feel assaulted be all the "MWUY-BEY-YUS"
Isn't it "Moe-bee-us"
I was wondering that too. I always thought it was MOH-bee- us. Is it really pronounced MOY-bee -us?
Mow-Be-Us!
@@UCKY5 Indeed i'ts Möbius. That vovel is rarely used in english at all. I can find only one old english word coördinated, but even that is not used anymore with the vovel. Example of the vovel in wikimedia: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel.ogg
My last name is Moebs (German-French border area origin) and it's pronounced like MUHRBZ. So it's pronounced MUHRB-EE-US
Three 147 is right
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How single most influential effect was on Fifth Element- the visual style of which is essentially identical to his original Heavy Metal comic “Blade Runner”. From which Ridley Scott stole the name, but nearly none of the aesthetic. And you don’t mention it. And don’t SHOW it.
I don't think that's how you pronounce Moebius. I think it's Moe (like Simpsons Moe)- bi (like the bi in bisexual)- us (like... Us.) Otherwise, great video!
You are correct.
Myer-be-us
Afonso, where bi as in bisexual from? It's more like "bee".
Moebius was probably influenced by metropolis... (the black and white silent movie)..
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I enjoyed this! Gotta love Moebius. His art is phenomenal. Feels like a portal into another reality.
You are amazing, I love your rundown. And insight.
Great video! I love Moebius.
I recomend the French SciFi animated film "Les Maîtres du temps" (The Masters of time) for which Moebius did the design and co-wrote the script. Has a lot of the tropes you presented. Very trippy at parts and it scared the hell outa me as a child.
I really didn't like it.
Your pronunciation is off. Giraud is more closely pronounced: 'Ghee -row', the 'd is silent'.
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Watched your Love and Rockets video and was reminded I'm an alcoholic lol. Would be cool if you did something on Tim Vigils "Faust" and "Druuna" from Heavy Metal magazine. Might be pricy to track those 80s issues down, but both are amazing.
Faust is a twisted masterpiece.
Credit for pronouncin Moebius.
fun fact, "french toast", is not French, the ancient roman were eating it thousands of years ago, the more modern version of it was being made in England in the early 17th century, the only reason why we call in "French toast" is because it was the French who brought the recipe to America.
So it's french to us
French fries are from Belgium :)
The episode I was hoping for!
Moebius is just some brilliant stuff! Apart from that, you gave a look of genuine discomfort while preparing for a bite o escargot lol 😂
I don't blame ya, I never tried it either
Maurício Victorino I love escargot myself, but I’ll admit it’s not for everyone.
Kind of like pizza with anchovies isn’t.
Finicky eater? Dude ... corn dog on a stick with yellow mustard?
6:33 “Pete Club” -- no, no resemblance to “Sam Spade” whatsoever ...
10:45 quiver-shivs might have helped influence lightsabers a bit but this probably came out after the dune series where they have those vibrating knives that at least in name sound like inspiration for quiver-shivs as while they glow (possibly from heating up or from being made of plasma blades) the name makes it sound like they vibrate or make a really fast movement in the blade that aids cutting
Comic Tropes : hello, i'm french, i love Jean Giraud 's work an i think he is "the" master of "Bande dessinée" ;). I didn't know that he has influenced Gibson and Carpenter, thank you for this video.
You make a decent, insightful video about an iconic French artist and all the arseholes in the comments can moan about is your pronunciation of Moebius and the food you're eating? Jesus, make your own videos and see if you can do better..
He is one of my most treasured inspirations and favorite artists, I miss him.
White flour is deadly. Cumulatively deadly. Better switch to whole grains.
12:59 Look at you! Delightin.
yes thank you for the moebius vid
Nice job ! Watch the "Heavy Metal" movie, you'll see a version of the story you reviewed where the main character is a cabbie, not a detective. Which also happens to be the main character in "Fifth Element". Hmmm, ... I think I see a pattern here ...
I shed a tear everytime is see an american eating "french food" that looks like it's made in china.
Because we really want you to taste the real deal.
Imagine if every US grandma made [Typical Grandma Dessert] and i went by eating a knock off of it, knowing little; you would be sad too :P
Yeah haha
Today, nobody eats snails anymore, in France... ;-)))))
Damn, a lot of info I didn't know, and knowing is half the battle.
Love the man's work....but are we sure it's pronounced MOY-bius? As opposed to MOE-bius? Whatever; carry on, sir.
Sorry, i'm french guy, and i don't even seen something like a "french toast" in my whole life like this thing 8:18 made with sirup...
But for all the video, everything's fine nice
10:28 14:30 17:57 sirious ? Why all that things has to be french ? it's hilarious, thanks :)
We don't eat snails, it's just to sell some disgusting things like shrimps, but some person continue to buy it.
Well being that you're french, is he pronouncing Moebius correctly? Because in English it would be MObius, not Moybius. Just curious.
it's completly mo -é -biu -sss
Moebius. 0:48
it can not be "mouille biyuss"
entre autre j'adore fluide glacial, phillip geluk, franquin, edika,
Great video. Any idea were I can get that boxed set that was shown at 0:56?
Great video! Next ( i hope) Valiant Comics
The baguette looks disgusting, the bread is way too dense and the crust not crusty enough.
Your french toast isn't anything close to french toast, it's a regular toast with syrup.
Macdonald fries, no comment, of course they're disgusting.
Your mustard is actually sweet american mustard, french only by the name.
All kinds of wrong here.
Oui, c'est vrai, mais ça part d'un bon sentiment mon pote. ;)
Duh, that's the joke.
Why in gods name did you duct tape your posters on your wall?
You mentioned adventures of tintin but I don't think you ever made any videos on that comic sadly. It is one of the only comics I read as a kid and I would love to see you disect it.
French fries aren't actually from France. They were invented in Belgium
IKR...
May be they are may be they aren't both nations claim them without ever proving anything, but one thing is for sure they are better in Belgium.
I'm French from the Belgium border.
That's the joke
This is a thorny question. First, in France, the French fries terms do not exist, any more than Belgian fries: They are called simply fries. For the historical part, I will base my memory on a reading that I made about it a few years ago (and I do not remember the reference). Basically, it was said that the first mentions written on fries come from Belgium, but a menu mentioning potatoes fried in goose fat about a decade after this Belgian writing was found in the region of Toulouse. The written records do not mention how long ago this practice existed in either of the two countries, it is for the moment impossible to decide this oh so thorny question! ;) Can be in a third country? ...: p
. The written records do not mention how long ago this practice existed in either of the two countries, it is for the moment impossible to decide this oh so thorny question! ;) Can be in a third country? ...: p
I like what you have to say about the comic world, but if you eat your lunch over another comic video while doing another poor reading of someone's beautiful Art, I might need to slap you via dictation!
Is it Moi-be-us or is it Mo-be-us?
If you speak German you'll know how to say it.
I love Moebius! I discovered him back in thhe 90´s, and have his series Incal (published in Portuguese by Meriberica), something in Spanish, and once I got an isseu by Dark Horse comics that is a collection of many pieces (Is the man good?, Trip to Pharagonescia and others). He´s one of the best ever! Thanks for the tribute. Bye!
Hi, Jean never took acid. He smoked pot. Greets from Europe.
Alexander Lindner he took mushrooms
Yes, he did take acid.
Hi Alex! 😂 I see we share a livelong hero of Comics.
I think he used peyote sometime, changed his whole outlook on life
"...for financial reasons." Can you name at least two of those reasons for us please?