COMIC ARTIST

Jean Giraud

1938 - 2012

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Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French: [ʒiʁo]; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius (; French: [møbjys]) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir (French: [ʒiʁ]), which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western-themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé. His most famous body of work as Gir concerns the Blueberry series, created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics, and which is particularly valued in continental Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Giraud is the 15th most popular comic artist (down from 10th in 2019), the 1,056th most popular biography from France (down from 898th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Comic Artist.

Jean Giraud was a French artist who is most famous for his work on the French comic series, "The Adventures of Tintin".

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Jean Giraud ranks 15 out of 226. Before him are Frank Miller, Joseph Barbera, Carl Barks, Hugo Pratt, Peyo, and Zdeněk Miler. After him are Jack Kirby, Matt Groening, Rumiko Takahashi, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Bob Kane, and Tsugumi Ohba.

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Among people born in 1938, Jean Giraud ranks 61. Before him are Robert Nozick, Derek Jacobi, Lynn Margulis, Jiří Menzel, Anthony James Leggett, and Issey Miyake. After him are Tufuga Efi, David Irving, Raymond Carver, Wim Kok, István Szabó, and Giuliano Amato. Among people deceased in 2012, Jean Giraud ranks 48. Before him are Benzion Netanyahu, Mike Wallace, Ravi Shankar, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Stephen Covey, and Sven Hassel. After him are Albert O. Hirschman, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Dick Clark, Rodney King, Rauf Denktaş, and Renato Dulbecco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Giraud ranks 1,056 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe Ariès (1914), Thierry Henry (1977), Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778), Louis-Jules Trochu (1815), Stéphane Audran (1932), and Jean de La Bruyère (1645). After him are Jean Moulin (1899), Maurice Druon (1918), Charles III of Navarre (1361), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082), and Peter Faber (1506).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Jean Giraud ranks 3. Before him are René Goscinny (1926), and Albert Uderzo (1927). After him are Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), Cabu (1938), Philippe Honoré (1941), Émile Cohl (1857), Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Martin (1921), and Claire Bretécher (1940).

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