Moebius.

[sirspamdalot]

Saturday left us without Moebius, one of my favorite artists. Cancer, cancer... there goes Dave Stevens, Dylan Williams, Moebius, and so on.

But let's discuss the good.

CRAFT

The thing which first attracted me to Moebius's work, and which I still admire most about it, was that

Comments

[chuckwheel]

Great article, Jesse. Thanks for that. Möbius is sheer genius and will always be up there with my all-time favorites. Of course the reasons for his greatness are many. Aside from its sheer dimensionality, which you highlight so well, his economy of line and balance between detail and white space also always stand out for me.

[sirspamdalot]

Thanks Chuck. Amen to your point about detail/white space! There's so much to discover and learn from in his work.

[attn2dtale]

Thank you for this thoughtful--and passionate--analysis. I'm still processing his loss, though I haven't invested nearly the time and attention into his work that you have. He was a master and we are the poorer for his absence.

[gbrombin]

Very interesting :)
I agree with the considerations here, but it's important to say that, when needed, this "rules" can be broken. I find myself more and more often breaking deliberately the perspective or feeling better with a background rendered as a complete plain surface.
I'd like to read an analysis on his hatching & color tecnique :)

g.

[ext_2025208]

Thank you, Jesse. This is a wonderful, enlightening, door-opening and very respectful study.
For his western comics Jean Giraud used extensively the book on B-westerns The Thrill of It All for photo-references.
In which book appeared the photos you showed us and that Moebius used for his nature-girl in the "Rimbaud"-comic (The other main character, the fat boy is reading Rimbaud)?

[sirspamdalot]

Thanks!

The book was "The Human Form in Action and Repose" (1966).

[ext_2025208]

Incredible! Where do you get these infos from?
Thanks a lot, Jesse.

[sirspamdalot]

In this case it was dumb luck. I happened to run across that book in search of good reference and noticed the similarity to these Moebius panels (and others besides). A couple of drawings Moebius did of nude men from behind, falling or leaping, were from that book, as was a detailed low-angle drawing of a nude, cross-legged woman, and more.

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