When he was three years old, his parents divorced, and he was raised mainly by his grandparents, who were living in the neighboring municipality of Fontenay-sous-Bois (much later, when he was an acclaimed artist, Giraud returned to live in the municipality in the mid-1970s, but was unable to buy his grandparents' house ). Jean Giraud was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris, on, as the only child to Raymond Giraud, an insurance agent, and Pauline Vinchon, who had worked at the agency. Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004 by French director Jan Kounen.
Mœbius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science-fiction and fantasy films, such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, and The Abyss.
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He also collaborated with avant garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky for an unproduced adaptation of Dune and the comic book series The Incal. These works include Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius. As Mœbius, he created a wide range of science-fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative, surreal, almost abstract style. His most famous works include the series Blueberry, created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, he has been described as the most influential bandes dessinées artist after Hergé. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseudonym Moebius ( / ˈ m oʊ b i ə s/ French: ), as well as Gir ( French: ) outside the English-speaking world, used for the Blueberry series-his most successful creation in the non-English speaking parts of the world-and his Western-themed paintings. Jean Henri Gaston Giraud ( French: – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition.
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