Editing Jean Giraud (section)

===Illustrator and author===
As already indicated above, Giraud had throughout his entire career made illustrations for books, magazines, music productions<ref name ="Bouster"/> (though playing the piano and electric guitar, Giraud was, unlike his second son Raphaël, regrettably not a creative musician himself by his own admission, but did have a lifelong fascination with [[jazz]]<ref>[[#Sources|Svane, 2003, p. 33]]; [[#Sadoul|Sadoul, 2015, pp. 110-112, 244]]</ref>), but also promotional art for commercial institutions such as banks and corporations. A notable early example of the latter, concerned the ''Blueberry'' art he created in 1978 for the Spanish [[jeans]] manufacturer Lois Jeans & Jackets; Aside from being traditionally run as an advertisement in numerous magazines, it was also blown up to gigantic, mural-like dimensions and as posters plastered on walls and billboards in several places all around Paris. As book illustrator, Giraud illustrated for example the 1987 first edition of the science fiction novel "Project Pendulum" by [[Robert Silverberg]],<ref name="project">[http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.nl/2013/04/under-cover-project-pendulum.html "Project Pendulum"] (200 pages, New York City:[[Walker & Company]], September 1987, {{ISBN|0802767125}}), Alphabettenthletter.blogspot.nl {{in lang|en}}</ref> and the 1994 French edition<ref name="alchemist">[http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-AUT-Giraud-Moebius-Tome-13-L-alchimiste-46604.html "L'Alchimiste"] (220 pages, Paris:Editions Anne Carrière, November 1994, {{ISBN|291018837X}}), Bedetheque.com {{in lang|fr}}</ref> of the novel "[[The Alchemist (novel)|The Alchemist]]" by [[Paulo Coelho]]. The subsequent year Giraud followed up in the same vein as the Coelho novel, with his cover and interior illustrations for a French 1995 reprint of "Ballades" from the French medieval poet [[François Villon]],<ref name="ballades">[https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Ballades-41503.html "Ballades"] (108 pages, Paris:[[:fr:Vertige Graphic]], October 1995, {{ISBN|290898119X}}), Bedetheque.com {{in lang|fr}}</ref> itself followed by similar work for {{ill|Jean-Jacques Launier|fr}}'s 2001 new-age novel "La mémoire de l'âme".<ref name="l'âme">[https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-AUT-Giraud-Moebius-Tome-21-La-memoire-de-l-ame-138493.html "La mémoire de l'âme"] (174 pages, Paris:Stardom, November 2001, {{ISBN|2843371716}}), Bedetheque.com {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Much of this non-comic art, including the one for Lois has been reproduced in the artbooks that were released over the years.

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Giraud was in mid-1990s approached by two [[video game]] developers to provide the box cover art for the video games that were released in 1995; the first one concerned the ''[[Fade to Black (video game)|Fade to Black]]'' video game developed by the US [[Delphine Software International]], whereas the second one concerned ''[[Panzer Dragoon (video game)|Panzer Dragoon]]'' video game developed by the Japanese [[Sega Corporation]]. And while Giraud was by now the well established Mœbius artist in both countries, he was only asked to contribute the box cover art for the two video game releases, and nothing beyond. A few years later though, he was also asked to contribute to later games as a concept artist.

In 1999, Giraud's illustrations appeared in a soft cover edition of [[Dante Alighieri]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy|La Divina Commedia]],'' published by the Nuages Gallery in [[Milan]]. As "Mœbius" he illustrated the "[[Paradiso (Dante)|Paradiso]]" volume, while the two others, "[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]" and "[[Purgatorio]]", were illustrated by [[Lorenzo Mattotti]] and [[Milton Glaser]] respectively.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Alighieri|first=Dante|title=La Divina Commedia|publisher=Nuages|others=Illustrated by Mœbius, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Milton Glaser|year=1999|location=Milan|language=Italian}}; The three-volume work consists of "Paradiso" ({{isbn|9788886456999}}, illustrated by Mœbius), "Inferno" ({{isbn|9788886456975}}, illustrated by Mattotti), and "Purgatorio" ({{isbn|9788886456982}}, illustrated by Glaser)</ref> The edition was published under the Mœbius name. Giraud's illustrations for "Paradiso" take heavy inspiration from the engravings of the ''Divine Comedy'' by Gustave Doré, whose work he had discovered in his grandparents' library and learned to appreciate in his early formative years, with compositions often approaching an exact match. Giraud acknowledged this influence directly, praising Doré's work and remarking how he sometimes literally used tracing paper to sketch compositions.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Moebius|title=Preface to La Divina Commedia - Paradiso|publisher=Nuages|year=1999|location=Milan|pages=5|language=Italian}}</ref> Though another prominent example of Giraud's non-comic book work, the influences from his science fiction and fantasy comics shine through. The illustrations, with vivid colors and space-age headresses, are distinctly rendered in the Mœbius mode.<ref>{{Cite book|last=La Salvia|first=Adrian|title=Dante und die bildenden Künste|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2016|isbn=9783110486117|pages=296–297|language=Italian|chapter=Dante e Doré: L’aura della Divina Commedia nell’arte moderna}}</ref>

An out-of-the-ordinary latter-day contribution as such, constituted his illustrations as "Mœbius" for the Thursday 6 March 2008 issue of the Belgian newspaper ''[[Le Soir]]''. His illustrations accompanied news articles throughout the newspaper, providing a ''Mœbiusienne'' look on events. In return, the newspaper, for the occasion entitled "Le Soir par (by) Mœbius", featured two half-page editorials on the artist (pp.&nbsp;20 & 37).

Under the names Giraud, Gir and Mœbius, he also wrote several comics for other comic artists as listed [[#Bibliography|below]], and the early ones included [[Jacques Tardi]]<ref>"Une cheval en hiver."; six page short story published in ''Pilote'', issue 550, May 1970, as one of the earliest published comic creations of the artist.</ref> and [[Claude Auclair]].<ref name="auclair">[https://www.stripinfo.be/reeks/strip/18989_Jason_Muller_1_Vertellingen_na_het_atoomtijdperk ''Jason Muller'': "Récits des temps post-atomiques!"] (44 pages, Paris:Les Humanoïdes Associés, October 1975, {{OCLC|123029103}}, parts previously published in ''Pilote'', issue 558, 1970 and issues 635 & 649, 1972), stripINFO.be {{in lang|nl}}; includes other language editions.</ref> Aside from writing for other comic artists, he also wrote story outlines for the movies ''Les Maîtres du temps'', ''Internal Transfer'', ''Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland'' and '' Thru the Moebius Strip'' as outlined further down the line.

As author on personal title, Giraud has &ndash; apart from his own ''bande dessinée'' scripts &ndash; written philosophical poetry that accompanied his art in his Mœbius artbooks of the 1980s and 1990s. He also wrote the "Story Notes" editorials for the American Epic publications, providing background information on his work contained therein. In 1998, he took time off to write his autobiography, ''[[#Sources|Moebius-Giraud: Histoire de mon double]]''.<ref name="double">[[#Sources|Sadoul, 2015, p. 215]]</ref>