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theairtightgarage:

Career Timeline: 1979 - Metal Hurlant, no. 44

Giraud, as Gir, creates a new western series with Blueberry writer  Jean-Michel Charlier, called Jim Cutlass. The first half of Jim Cutlass: Mississippi River is published.

[above is the painting used for the cover to Metal Hurlant, no. 44, and the first 9 pages, both reprinted in Moebius 8: Mississippi River]

theairtightgarage:

Career Timeline: 1978 - Metal Hurlant, no. 29

Hit Man, a 12 page comedic strip, is published:

“On the graphic level, it is an homage to [Jacques] Tardi, one of the great French comic artists. In my opinion, one of his merits is to have freed the field of a certain tense formality by reintroducing a style that was very popular at the turn of the century, and which mixed freedom and artistic skill.”

— Moebius, from Moebius 5: The Gardens of Aedena

[the above pages are the first 9 of the colored version of Hit Man, published in Moebius 5: The Gardens of Aedena]