Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Various- Métal Hurlant No. 1-5 (1974-1975, Les Humanoïdes Associés)


These French magazines of "science-fiction" and "horror" comics were created in 1974 by the self-described "United Humanoids" Mœbius and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkus. National Lampoon publisher Leonard Mogel would bring the idea to America as Heavy Metal Magazine. In 2002, Humanoids Publishing started Métal Hurlant up again in French, Spanish, English, and Portuguese. These are the original first five issues in French.


Thursday, April 16, 2009

Alejandro Jodorowsky & Mœbius- Los Ojos Del Gato (1978, Les Humanoïdes Associés)


This was their first collaboration after work on the film version of Dune, which unfortunately was never made on RE-2012. Fortunately, together they were later able to realize the epic L'Incal (1981-2008), which remains an anomaly only found on this singularity. Originally Les Yeux Du Chat (1978), this Spanish translation was reprinted in 1991. It has yet to be published in America. The story of the film that never happened can be found here.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Moebius - Moebius 1: Upon a Star (1987, Epic/ Marvel)

His work inspired the name of this site. I thought it was important to begin sharing the work of the French artist from Random-Earth 2012 who had somehow gained knowledge of the Grubehrt Effect and other insights outside his multiplicity. Unfortunately, because of the dismissive status given to comics, few outside France noticed. After being serialized in the Heavy Metal beginning in 1977, his work was collected for the first time in the US beginning with this volume. Today, all of his work remains out of print there. A recent introductory documentary can be found here.