A review by mattait
Moebius Library: Inside Moebius Part 1 by Jean Giraud

4.0

Tentative rating here until I've read the rest of the series. My initial impression of it as a fan-only thing is a bit premature I think. While it no doubt deepens the reading to be familiar with Moebius'/Jean Giraud's work there's a lot else going on here; formal playfulness, philosophical musings leavened with breezy self-deprecating humour and fun digressions, insight into artistic process and so on. It's cool to see Moebius playing with the auto-bio comics genre and it's hard to imagine that he wasn't aware of other english language examples, there's a familiar self-aware tone seen in, for example, some of Robert Crumb's precedent setting work. I'm looking forward to reading the next 2 books.