Editing Jean Giraud (section)

====Tahiti (1983–1984)====
From 1985 to 2001 he also created his six-volume fantasy series ''[[Le Monde d'Edena]]'', which has appeared in English as ''The Aedena Cycle''.<ref name="edena">[https://www.stripinfo.be/reeks/index/332_De_wereld_van_Edena ''De wereld van Edena''], stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}; includes other language editions.</ref> The stories were strongly influenced by the teachings of Jean-Paul Appel-Guéry,{{efn|name="appel"|"Appel-Guéry encouraged Mœbius to tap into the more positive zones of his subconscious. 'Most of the people that were studying spirituality with Appel-Guéry did not know much about comics, but they immediately picked on the morbid, and overall negative feelings that permeated my work,' said Moebius. 'So I began to feel ashamed, and I decided to do something really different, just to show them that I could do it.'"<ref>Randy Lofficier and [[Jean-Marc Lofficier]], ''Moebius Comics'' No. 1, Caliber Comics, 1996.</ref>}} and [[Guy-Claude Burger]]'s instinctotherapy. In effect, Giraud and his family did join Appel-Guéry's [[Intentional community|commune]] on Tahiti in 1983, until late 1984, when the family moved to the United States, where Giraud set up shop first in Santa Monica, and subsequently in Venice and Woodland Hills, California.<ref>[[#Sources|Sadoul, 1991, pp. 59–69]]</ref> Giraud's one-shot comic book "La nuit de l'étoile"<ref name="etoile">[http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-2025-BD-Nuit-de-l-etoile.html "La nuit de l'étoile"] (48 pages, Paris:Aedena, May 1986, {{ISBN|2905035250}}), Bedetheque.com {{in lang|fr}}</ref> was co-written by Appel-Guéry, and has been the most visible manifestation of Giraud's stay on Tahiti, aside from the artbooks "La memoire du futur"<ref name="memoire">[https://www.stripinfo.be/reeks/strip/67237_La_memoire_du_futurStarwatcher_1_La_memoire_du_futur/showall "La memoire du futur"] (96 pages, Paris:Gentiane, November 1983, {{ISBN|2904300031}}, later retitled "Starwatcher", Paris:Aedena, February 1986, {{ISBN|290503520X}}), stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}; includes other language editions.</ref> and "Venise celeste".<ref name="venise">[https://www.stripinfo.be/reeks/strip/67242_Venise_celeste_1_Venise_celeste "Venise celeste"], (102 pages, Paris:Aedena, September 1988, {{ISBN|2905035013}}), stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}; includes other language editions.</ref> Concurrently collaborating on "La nuit de l'étoile" was young artist [[Marc Bati]], also residing at the commune at the time, and for whom Giraud afterwards wrote the comic series ''Altor'' (''The Magic Crystal''), while in the US.<ref name="altor">[https://www.stripinfo.be/reeks/index/36_Altor "''Altor''"], stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}; includes other language editions.</ref> It was under the influence of Appel-Guéry's teachings that Giraud conceived a third pseudonym, '''Jean Gir''' &ndash; formally introduced to the public as "Jean Gir, Le Nouveau Mœbius" in "Venise celeste" (p.&nbsp;33), though Giraud had by the time of publication already dispensed with the pseudonym himself &ndash; which appeared on the art he created while on Tahiti, though not using it for his ''Aedena Cycle''. Another member of the commune was Paula Salomon, for whom Giraud had already illustrated her 1980 book "La parapsychologie et vous".<ref name="para">[http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-AUT-Giraud-Moebius-La-parapsychologie-et-vous-277088.html "La parapsychologie et vous"] (154 pages, Paris:[[Éditions Albin Michel]], February 1980, {{ISBN|2226009272}}), Bedetheque.com {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Having to move stateside for work served Giraud well, as he became increasingly disenchanted at a later stage with the way Appel-Guéry ran his commune on Tahiti, in the process dispensing with his short-lived third pseudonym.<ref name=redux/> His stay at the commune though, had practical implications on his personal life; Giraud gave up eating meat, smoking, coffee, alcohol and, for the time being, the use of mind-expanding substances, adhering to his newfound abstinence for the most part for the remainder of his life.<ref>[[#Sources|Sadoul, 1991, pp. 53-55]]</ref>

During his stay on Tahiti, Giraud had co-founded his second publishing house under two concurrent imprints, Éditions Gentiane<ref>[https://www.stripinfo.be/lijst.php?uitgever=1222&sort=jaar "Gentiane"], stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}</ref> (predominantly for his work as Gir, most notably ''Blueberry'') and {{ill|Aedena|fr}}<ref>[https://www.stripinfo.be/lijst.php?uitgever=1298&sort=jaar "Aedena"], stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}</ref> (predominantly for his work as Mœbius, and not entirely by coincidence named after the series he was working on at the time), together with friend and former editor at Les Humanoïdes Associés, {{ill|Jean Annestay|fr}}, for the express purpose to release his work in a more artful manner, such as limited edition art prints, art books ("La memoire du futur" was first released under the Gentiane imprint, and reprinted under that of Aedena) and art portfolios. Both men had already released the very first such art book in the Humanoïdes days,<ref name="moebius1980"/> and the format then conceived &ndash; to wit, a large 30x30cm book format at first, with art organized around themes, introduced by philosophical poetry by Mœbius &ndash; was adhered to for later such releases, including "La memoire du futur".