![]() ![]() His densely packed panels depicted an American West he knew mainly from the movies. His reputation as a comic book master was established in 1963 with “Les Aventures de Blueberry,” a Wild West story about a fugitive Union Army lieutenant running from the law. ![]() Giraud’s work “made him the figurehead of this unique art form in France.” Jack Lang, the French minister of culture in the 1980s and early 1990s, told Reuters that Mr. In France, where the line between popular and serious art often blurs, he was a source of national pride. Giraud, who used the pen name Moebius in much of his work, was seen in the comic-book world as a kind of artist-avatar of the unbounded interior human landscape. The cause was cancer, according to a statement by his publisher, Éditions Dargaud. Jean Giraud, a French comic-book artist whose dark, intricately drawn fantasy worlds exerted a profound influence on graphic novels worldwide and on American science fiction films like “Alien,” “Tron” “The Fifth Element,” and “Avatar,” died on Saturday at his home outside Paris. ![]()
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