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the Voyage De'Hermes Portfolio, by Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud.

Moebius produced these paintings for the ‘Voyage De’Hermes’ line of cosmetics and perfumes that Hermes released back in 2009. I am not sure if Hermes used these as advertising. I think they might have been used as an in-house portfolio, shown to the cosmetics design team at Hermes in order to inspire them for the direction and color palette of the season.

the perfumes and some of the makeups are still available at retailers, but Hermes probably does not carry much stock in their actual stores from this line of merchandise. As far as the artwork from this campaign is concerned, I have not seen it listed anywhere else, and Hermes has not reused it as far as I know. The merchandise uses a similar color palette, but that is really all that remains beyond these 9 paintings.

Moebius' preliminary pencils for the cover of Marvel Tales #253 Source

The image works best without indicia. Morbius lurks hugely in front but we’re drawn to our hero, Spidey. He’s poised for action. Perfect composition. Loses something after inks by Sylvain Despretz, and then logo. Best to enjoy the master here, then later.

Original cover inks printing key. Inks by Sylvain Despretz. Source

Colorist unknown. Source

I keep going back to the pencils. They’re “preliminary” but something’s lost. The art of a European Bande dessinée artist lost to two headers, corner box, “special giant size issue” “50 years…” ad nauseam.

I’m thrilled that I can see these at all. I’ve seen Mona Lisa (from a distance), and Van Gogh (up close, much to the chagrin of the guard at Musée d'Orsay) but this is art in its inception. A few hours of sketch time and we’re talking about it decades later.

Moebius is special. His work rings bells in me like few others, like Bill Everett, Wally Wood. He can be vile, surreal, magical and often rude, but he’s distinctive. Rare honor for an artist at his level to guest on a reprint.

Jean Giraud / Moebius - Blueberry  Cover of L’Homme à l’étoile d’argent (The Man with the Silver Star) - Originally published in Pilote weekly magazine, from April 1966 to Sept.1966, Paris

Young Giraud. Already ^&%$ing awesome.

Silver Surfer: Parable, Vol. 1 # 01, as Illustrated by Moebius, and Scripted by Stan Lee.

*Silver Surfer, Vol. 4 # 1*

Lieutenant Blueberry, by the late, great Jean (Moebius) Giraud.

Moebius “Desert Valley” (Source, 20MP)

Tumblr dumbs it down quite a bit. Source image is not dumb.

some wallpaper-sized Moebius artwork.

Thsnk you whoever found these.

You are quite welcome.

Please check my tags and my archive for a LOT more!

Star Wars, by Moebius.

Blueberry sketch by Tony Moore

After Jean Giraud (Moebius was his nomme de guerre only doing fantasy/ scifi art, Gir was Gir with westerns)