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LEGENDARY ARTIST JEAN GIRAUD, ALIAS MOEBIUS, PASSES AWAY.  May 8, 1938 - March 10, 2012

Jean Giraud, the enormously influential French comic artist widely known as Moebius, passed away this morning in Paris following a long illness, RFI reports. He was 73.

While Giraud and his works are far better known in his native France than in the United States, it's virtually impossible to overstate his influence on comics artists, writers and readers around the globe. For evidence, look no further than Twitter, where "Jean Giraud" and "Moebius" are worldwide trending topics.

Co-creator, with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, of the Western comic strip "Fort Navajo" and its hugely popular spinoff "Blueberry," Giraud was born in 1938 in the Parisian suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, where he spent his childhood drawing cowboys and Indians.

Trained at the prestigious Ecole des Arts Applique in Paris and apprenticed to celebrated Belgian artist Jije, Giraud began using the pseudonym Moebius in 1963 for his more experimental science fiction and fantasy work. The name disappeared for more than a decade, only to be revived in 1975 when Giraud co-founded "Metal Hurlant," the acclaimed anthology that serialized his famed comics "The Airtight Garage" and "Azrach." In 1981, Giraud collaborated with Alejandro Jodorowsky on the science fiction comic "The Incal.".

Giraud also famously teamed with Stan Lee for the two-part "Silver Surfer: Parable," published in 1988 by Marvel.

A prolific storyboard artist and concept designer, Giraud worked on such science fiction films as "Alien," "Tron" and "The Abyss." His "Blueberry" was adapted as a live-action movie in 2004 (Giraud even appeared in a cameo role).

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For a couple of years now I've been compiling a list of Movies, Documentaries, and Books about art and artists.  With your help it has grown considerably.  Now I'm adding a category for podcasts.  I'm mainly interested in podcasts that are current and still running or that are so exceptional they are timeless.  If you can think of any to add to this list it would be greatly appreciated.  

Movies

-Art School Confidential
-Basquiat
-Camille Claudel
-Cashback (not really about art but from an artist viewpoint)
-Frida
-Gauguin the Savage
-Girl with a Pearl Earring
-Goya's Ghosts
-Klimt
-Little Ashes
-Local Color
-Love Is The Devil
-Lust for Life
-Moulin Rouge (1952 version, not the new one)
-New York Stories (the first story)
-Paradise Found
-Pollock
-Surviving Picasso
-Synedoche, New York
-The Agony and The Ecstasy
-Vincent and Theo


Documentaries

-Alex Grey: The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
-American Masters: Andy Warhol
-Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Seasons 1 & 2
-Beautiful Losers
-Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress
-Crumb
-Exit Through the Gift Shop
-Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Ralph Steadman appears here also.)
-Graffiti Wars
-In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger
-Ken Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton
-Max Ernst
-Painting with Fire - Frank Frazetta
-Rivers and Tides*(Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time)
-The Cool School: How LA learned to love modern art
-The Mystery of Picasso
-Who Does she think she is?
-Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?


Books

-Art & Fear-David Bayles and Ted Orland
-Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain-Betty Edwards
-Life, Paint and Passion-Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley
-My Name Is Asher Lev-Chaim Potok
-No More Secondhand Art, Awakening The Artist Within-Peter London
-The Master Painter-Edwin Mullins (fiction)
-The Sound Of Sleat-Jon Schueler


Podcasts

-Art a GoGo Podcast [link]
-Bad at Sports [link]
-Untitled Art Show [link]

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