Metal Hurlant: Passing Through - Paperback

by Jean Giraud (Author)

PASSING THROUGH: LIMINAL SPACES AND OTHER THRESHOLDS

The map ends here. Keep going.

Combining twenty-fi ve all-new stories by those at the vanguard of modern comics with six classics and gems retrieved from the vault, the Humanoids sci-fi anthology continues its boundless journey.

272 pages on the notion, the motion, and the stillness of "passing through" ghost towns, paranoid corridors, portals in the spacetime continuum, phases of life and self, and other uncharted territories explored by past, present, and future vanguards of sequential art, including:

ADRIEN MANGOLD, AFIF KHALED, ALEX C. SANTANA, ALEXANDER ASISI, ALEXANDRE KHA, BEB-DEUM, BRYAN LING, CAZA, CECILIA CAPUANA, CÉLINE COLLIOT-THÉLÈNE, CURT MERLO, DANIEL BLANCOU, DAVID FERRACCI, DONA ASISI, EDUARDO FRANCISCO, ERWANN SURCOUF, ÉTIENNE APPERT, FABRIZIO DORI, FRANÇOIS BAZZOLI, FRANÇOIS SCHUITEN, GREGORY PANACCIONE, IWAN LÉPINGLE, J.R. HUGHTO, JACQUES DESPRÉS, JACQUES LOB, JÉRÉMIE GASPARUTTO, JERRY FRISSEN, JOSEPH CALLIONI, JULIEN NOIREL, KOREN SHADMI, LOLA OWL, LUC SCHUITEN, MARVIN PAVAL, MIGUEL BABIANO, MIGUEL VILA, MIKLÓS FELVIDÉKI, MOEBIUS, OTTO MADDOX, PAUL LUCIDO, PHILIPPE SCOFFONI, RACHEL, RICHARD MARAZANO, RONAN TOULHOAT, SALVADOR SANZ, SERGIO MACEDO, TED BENOIT, THIBAUD DE ROCHEBRUNE, THIBAULT CLAUDEL

Author Biography

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French: [?i?o]; 8 May 1938 - 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Moebius (/'mo?bi?s/;[1] French: [møbjys]) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir (French: [?i?]), which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western-themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, [2] he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé.[3]

His most famous body of work as Gir concerns the Blueberry series, created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics, and which is particularly valued in continental Europe. As Moebius, he achieved worldwide renown (in this case in the English-speaking nations and Japan, as well - where his work as Gir had not done well), by creating a wide range of science-fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative, surreal, almost abstract style. These works include Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius. He also collaborated with avant garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky for an unproduced adaptation of Dune and the comic-book series The Incal.

Moebius also contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science-fiction and fantasy films, such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, and The Abyss. Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004 by French director Jan Kounen