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pencil, ink and watercolor on thin cardboard
23,5 x 30 cm
Original comic art made by Moebius for page 4 of "L'Homme est-il bon?", a short story first published in Pilote n. 744 by Dargaud in 1974. This work is one of the first and most significant creations that Giraud created after adopting the pseudonym Moebius, to distinguish his nascent science fiction production from his established work on the Blueberry western. "L'Homme est-il bon?" is one of Moebius's most meditative and personal works, an expression of his philosophical and visual universe outside of the great narrative cycles. This story would be republished a few years later in one of the first issues of the revolutionary French science fiction and fantasy magazine, Métal Hurlant n. 10 of 1976, and would provide the title for one of Moebius's first collections of short stories published in France, "L'Homme est il bon?", published by Les Humanoides Associés in 1977. Beginning in 1977, Moebius's work was revealed to readers in the United States in the pages of Heavy Metal, and under the title "Is Man Good?" this story served as the cornerstone of the artist's first American collection of works, "Heavy Metal Presents Is Man Good?" in 1978. This piece dates to the early days of Giraud's activity as Moebius and comes from one of his best-known stories from this early period. Extremely rare. Publisher's stamp on the back.
23,5 x 30 cm
Original comic art made by Moebius for page 4 of "L'Homme est-il bon?", a short story first published in Pilote n. 744 by Dargaud in 1974. This work is one of the first and most significant creations that Giraud created after adopting the pseudonym Moebius, to distinguish his nascent science fiction production from his established work on the Blueberry western. "L'Homme est-il bon?" is one of Moebius's most meditative and personal works, an expression of his philosophical and visual universe outside of the great narrative cycles. This story would be republished a few years later in one of the first issues of the revolutionary French science fiction and fantasy magazine, Métal Hurlant n. 10 of 1976, and would provide the title for one of Moebius's first collections of short stories published in France, "L'Homme est il bon?", published by Les Humanoides Associés in 1977. Beginning in 1977, Moebius's work was revealed to readers in the United States in the pages of Heavy Metal, and under the title "Is Man Good?" this story served as the cornerstone of the artist's first American collection of works, "Heavy Metal Presents Is Man Good?" in 1978. This piece dates to the early days of Giraud's activity as Moebius and comes from one of his best-known stories from this early period. Extremely rare. Publisher's stamp on the back.
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