Jean Giraud

Jean Giraud is a French comics artist, born May 8, 1938 in Paris, France.
He is known under his own name, but also under the pseudonyms of Gir and Moebius.

Jean Giraud is, with Jean-Michel Charlier[?], the Creator of Blueberry for which he's best known.

At age 16 Giraud began his only technical training at the Arts Appliques. At 18, he was drawing his own comic strip, "Frank et Jeremie" for the magazine "Far West".

In 1962 Giraud and the comics writer Jean-Michel Charlier started the comic strip "Fort Navajo" for "Pilote". It was a great hit and continued uninterrupted until 1974.

The Moebius pseudonym was born in 1963. In a satire magazine called "Hara Kiri", Moebius did 21 strips for this magazine between 1963 and 1964 and then disappeared for almost a decade. In 1975 "Metal Hurlant" brought it back and in 1981 he started his famous L'Incal series.