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How one artist invented modern pop culture (Moebius documentary)

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How did one French comic artist change the course of global pop culture?

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Books:
Dr. Moebius & Mr. Gir (interview collection) - https://amzn.to/3JXPSHQ
Moebius by Nicolas Labarre
ユリイカ2009年7月号　特集=メビウスと日本マンガ
Goscinny by Marie-Ange Guillaume and José-Louis Bocquet
Histoire de mon Double by Jean Giraud
Delirium by Phillipe Druillet

Videos;
Jodorowsky’s Dune - Available on Tubi
The MOEBIUS 1997 Shoot Interview by David ...
An evening with “Moebius” A CTN exclusive ...
In Search of Moebius (BBC 4 Documentary)
Interview with Jean Giraud aka Moebius 1/5
Jean Giraud "Moebius" and Jean Claude Mez...
Jean Giraud "Moebius" and Jean Claude Mez...

Credits:
Edit: ‪@HTRComics‬
Animation: ‪@goldmondfong790‬
Translation Help: ‪@ayakuweb‬
Defending Blueberry Superiority: matttt

Image Credits:
Geoff Darrow Photo by Luigi Novi
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0:00 Intro
1:03 Moebius is Missing
2:27 Childhood
6:43 Blueberry
9:30 Sponsor
10:40 Revolution
12:38 Moebius is Born
18:36 Metal Hurlant Works
32:39 Influence
43:29 Later Work

20 Comments

@mattwith4ts Creator 1 year ago Pinned

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@nnzzk 1 year ago

Hi :) I'm Nausicaa. Thanks for the very complete, and fascinating video about my dad. Just a little complaint 😅 The picture at 49:04 is definitely not my mother Isabelle at all hahahaha ! And his first wife's name is Claudine (not Caroline). Otherwise, bravo !

@Selzor 1 year ago

My favorite Stan Lee story is that when he went to work with Moebius on what would become Silver Surfer Parable, he was terrified and nervous because he was going to be working with the Moebius only to learn that Moebius was the same way with working with Stan Lee.

@Bakedpotatomanforever 1 year ago

It's insane matttt appeared out of thin air, doesn't have a Patreon or any socials, and just makes the most well-produced, insightful comic and manga videos. Legend.

@alx_carvalho 1 year ago

Ironically, in his search for a father figure, Moebius became the father of numerous artists.

@AccoSpoot 1 year ago

Man, imagine being an 80's Citroen salesman and having your mind expanded by the sales manual 😅

@摂津上 1 year ago

I believe that if he had recognized the Japanese animation industry twenty years earlier, the French animation scene might have experienced an extraordinary development.
He disliked Disney’s factory-like production system, but Japan’s approach was closer to the European workshop style, and he said that in such an environment he might have been able to work himself.
Moebius gave something irreplaceable to both the world and Japan, yet the world was not able to respond to it fully.

@PUNKISTCHUY 1 year ago

-Appeared out of nowhere
- makes the most insanely good and well-produced comic/manga videos
- disappears and only shows up to drop another classic every few weeks/months
- don't elaborate any further
- drops another classic
what a goated channel this been so far

@universalflamethrower6342 1 year ago

Summary: Guy misses a father figure, becomes father figure for an entire artistic era

@IVG2814 1 year ago

I remember the first time I was introduced to Moebius someone referred to him as "Your favorite artist's favorite artist".

He quickly became my favorite artist too. The Incal, The Edena Cycle, The Airtight Garage, Arzach... they fundamentally changed how I approach drawing, storytelling, everything about comics. His ability to draw in multiple styles within the same story and seamlessly blend it all was incredible.

@TheNickPitarra 1 year ago (edited)

As a professional comic artist working on the Moebius tree of artist (love Darrow and Quitely too) and owner of a few Moebius originals, I tell everyone “Moebius’s imagination is so vast that he holds your imagination within his.” You nailed this video, brotha, without The Long Tomorrow we’d still have windup toasters for robots. People often challenge me on Moebius’s significance because he doesn’t have an Avengers or easily consumable pop culture property for the masses, but he defined a whole aesthetic, many aesthetics, and he forever changed art in a way that is still compounding and will be unquantifiable by the time the universe ends. He was a prophet with a pencil. Wonderful video (as always).

@recklessMG 1 year ago

The realisation that the most accomplished and capable artist of his generation spent his life searching is both heartbreaking... and inspiring.

@josephlindley6419 1 year ago

Finally, instead of ranting at my friends about Moebius as I have for the last 20 years I can just send them a link to this video.

@davidlehnhardt3245 1 year ago

102 years before cyberpunk 2077... that caught me off guard. I don't think anyone else has noticed xD

@robertwilsoniv 1 year ago

Geof Darrow didn't just work with Moebius, he LIVED with him. He told me several beautiful and wild stories while tabling next to him at a San Antonio comic convention about a decade ago. Beautiful work on this doc!

@Situaties 1 year ago

The bald oracle returns.

@hakanstorsater5090 1 year ago

Although Jijé here is roughly passed over in haste, by 1957 he was a local Belgian legend, who has had an impact similar to Tintin creator Hergé, and later Moebius himself. Together with the three younger talented apprentices André Franquin, Morris and Will, he helped turn the children's magazine Spirou from a cheap magazine with mostly imported American comics into a post-war institution that deeply influenced the development of the whole scene. They created the lively Marcinelle school by mixing Hergés Ligne Claire with the fluid Disney style, and Jijé was the front person for a more vivid, realistic style inspired by Milton Caniff. (Caniff also had a wide global impact emanating from Jijé and Italian-Argentinian disciple Hugo Pratt...)

@hansolobutimdead 1 year ago

In his search for a father, he became one

@TheJosep70 10 months ago

Don't care what people say, Tron is a work of art. Moebius, Syd Mead, Wendy Carlos, Steven Lisberger, the team behind the CGI and many others created a work like no other.