5/8/1938 - 3/10/2012
Remembering the life, death and sci-fi legacy of Jean Giraud
PARIS (AP) - French comics artist Jean Giraud, known by fans from Hollywood to Japan as Moebius and the creator of unsettling, eye-opening fantasy worlds in print and on film, has died at 73.
Publishing house Dargaud announced the death in a statement and hailed "one of the greatest artists of world comic art." France's Europe-1 radio said he died Saturday after a long illness, according to his family, but no other details were announced.
Giraud worked on several Hollywood films...