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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Centrale on February 21, 2015, 10:48:52 am
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R.I.P. to Jean Giraud, also known as Moebius, the great French cartoonist whose influence has been felt all over the world in comics, film, and of course video games. Moebius contributed illustrations to the original Panzer Dragoon.
I first encountered some of his work in the mid-80s in Heavy Metal magazine, a fantasy and sci-fi magazine that featured many European cartoonists whose work was otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to find in the U.S. Even today it's maddeningly difficult to find English translations and printings of some of Moebius's most famous works in the States. And when you can find them, you might have to shell out some serious cash, as they have usually been released in very limited print runs. It just ain't right.
It's hard to cover everything he's done, but this article is a decent place to start exploring some links:
http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-73
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He died in 2012 guys.
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He died in 2012 guys.
I was going to say, I was sure he passed away years ago.
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:-[ For some reason someone posted about it on my FB feed and I didn't check the dates. Stay tuned for my next thread, Barack Obama has won the presidential election.
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I was going to say, I was sure he passed away years ago.
Yeah, I was confused by this topic.
Mademan, Aki and me where just talking about him on skype the other day. Wouldn't it be cool to have a sci-fi game based on his awesome designs instead of ugly Halo/Gears of war generic crap?
Still tho:
(http://www.williamstout.com/news/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Moebius35.jpg)
Sharky even did a post:
http://segabits.com/blog/2012/03/10/panzer-dragoon-artist-jean-giraud-moebius-has-passed-away/ (http://segabits.com/blog/2012/03/10/panzer-dragoon-artist-jean-giraud-moebius-has-passed-away/)
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After Sharky made that topic, I went out of my way to buy the JPN version of Panzer Dragoon for Saturn so I could get his gorgeous cover art.
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Oh the old days when I actually did things! I remember those!
Edit: George does that pic you posted come any bigger? I want it for my desktop background!
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Oh the old days when I actually did things! I remember those!
Edit: George does that pic you posted come any bigger? I want it for my desktop background!
largest I can find is 600x600 :/
http://images-mix.netdna-ssl.com/w/600/h/600/q/85/upload/images/extaudio/467d15f3-e4e5-45dd-aa50-40b1e031ac92.jpg
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largest I can find is 600x600 :/
http://images-mix.netdna-ssl.com/w/600/h/600/q/85/upload/images/extaudio/467d15f3-e4e5-45dd-aa50-40b1e031ac92.jpg
Aw, shame but thanks! Such an awesome picture.
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Sorry, you might like this tho:
http://40.media.tumblr.com/b2d10173065162d811cea49209005260/tumblr_mjgvh4SuMI1qbluruo1_1280.jpg