Moebius – Attention to detail
For the next Family Series set, I go back to the early 1990s (again).
Around 1990-92 I was really into comic book collecting. This was the guilded age of the special edition cover, when Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee and Rob Liefield ruled the pages. I was especially into Spiderman…not too much DC, lthough I still picked up all of the Superman titles: Action, Adventures of Superman, etc. It was a great time to be a comic reader.
One day when I was at my local comic shop (which is still in business… but in another town) I happened to see a poster of Iron Man drawn by a one name artist: Moebius. It didn’t look like all the other posters…Iron Man looked mean… and made less of iron and more like stone or some sort of weird marble masonry. I bought that poster instead of comics that week. I remained on my wall thru my high school graduation. Then… poof.
It didn’t catch on fire or anything… I just took it down. Eventually, it was thrown away (inhales sorrowfully).
So I remembered that poster and the work of Jean Giraud (Moebius) when thinking of my next series. Feels like the 1990s again. Hope you dig it.
