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Voyage d’Hermès: A Moebius Masterwork - Sci-Fi-O-Rama

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If you have followed the Sci-Fi-O-Rama blog and Facebook page, you have likely noticed our abiding love for the great Moebius (Jean Giraud, 1938-2012). With a career that spanned six decades, Moebius was remarkably prolific. His fertile imagination encompassed everything from gritty Westerns to mind-bending psychedelia and he produced influential works in comics, film, illustration, and fine art. A look at any phase of his life will reveal something original, amazing in its creativity, admirable in its craft. However, in 2010 and at the age of 72, the master of French sci-fi comics released a nine plate folio that might be viewed as a culmination of his entire career, Voyage d’Hermès, subtitled “Les Mondes Élémentaires: Un Voyage Imaginé et Dessiné par Moebius” or “The Elemental Worlds: An Imagined and Drawn Journey by Moebius“. Commissioned by French fashion house Hermès, the project is a bit of enigma. While its name would align it with one of their signature perfumes, the work has n

Above: The opening plate in the Voyage d’Hermès folio. Moebius, 2010. If you have followed the Sci-Fi-O-Rama blog and Facebook page, you have likely noticed our abiding love for the great Moebius (Jean Giraud, 1938-2012). With a career that spanned six decades, Moebius was remarkably prolific. His fertile imagination encompassed everything from gritty Westerns to mind-bending psychedelia and he produced influential works in comics, film, illustration, and fine art. A look at any phase of his life will reveal something original, amazing in its creativity, admirable in its craft. Above:…

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