Moodboard: Pen sketch by Moebius/Gir (Jean Giraud D2012) circa mid 1980's. Article except: "MÉTAL HURLANT: 1974 – 1987. RÉVOLUTION OF THE HUMANOÏDES. (PART 4)" (A.Glass 2021)
"...Giraud didn’t stop drawing comics altogether, by the end of 1982 after living in Paris, by that time he had already met in 1980 the philosopher and ‘new age’ spiritualist Jean-Paul Appel-Guery, moving his family to Pau at the foothills of Pyrenees, where he engaged further with Appel-Guery, sensing a burnt out Giraud, Giraud began to backlash on his own early work, citing the teachings of Appel-Guery that he needed to pacify the negative and focus of positive aspects of his subconsciousness. Giraud dropped the Moebius pseudonym, incorporating a new pen name “Gir” he quickly went to work on a new comic, inspired by the commune he had his family were now part of, the new publication was influenced Appel-Guery to which the comic was titled Le Monde d’Edena or The Adena Cycle which was a dramatic shift away from Giraud’s more darker and apocalyptic and dystopic visions that Métal Hurlant represented, this new comic encapsulated his new found philosophy. However, after the comic was released Giraud became disillusioned with the cultist aspects of Appel-Guery teachings, soon after relocating his family to Tahiti to join a newly created commune, Giraud by 1984 once again resettled his family, setting up base in Los Angeles, California. For an extended period into the late 1980s, Giraud, who was no stranger to the creative elite of movie industry, initiated by his early days with Métal Hurlant up until the late 1970s when Alejandro Jodorowsky’s DUNE failed to materialize, morphing, without Jodorowsky, onto other major Hollywood productions such as ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER. In 1987 the influential magazine Métal Hurlant folded and in an interesting turn of events, much like Giraud’s colleague Jean Pierre Dionnet earlier venture in trying to enter the American comic book industry, Métal Hurlant being the risqué French publication that it was, Giraud ended up, after the final issue of the magazine that he was a part of, also represented by his own convoluted artistic path; was offered to draw for the mainstream Marvel comic book company, more so the very American story of “The Silver Surfer” written by Stan Lee. Yet, what was released under Giraud’s artistic direction, ended up being very much alike to the Métal Hurlant formula of metaphysical, apocalyptic and fatalistic concepts..."
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(A.Glass 2021)
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