![]() ![]() William Gibson has also famously referred to Giraud's futuristic artwork as a key influence on Neuromancer. Though Giraud has contributed designs for a handful of famous film and video game projects, absorbing his work through these projects doesn't even begin to reflect the huge impact that classic graphic stories like The Airtight Garage (1976-1980), Arzach (1975), and The Long Tomorrow (1976) had on the careers of almost every significant science fiction filmmaker of the last thirty years-George Lucas, James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Luc Besson, and the Wachowski brothers, to name but a few. ![]() The recent passing of French comics artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud, much like his induction into the science fiction hall of fame last year, was a painful reminder of just how little of his work is available for today's readers in the English-speaking world. ![]()
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