{"id":5787,"date":"2012-03-10T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2012-03-10T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:02:21","slug":"moebius-1938-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/10\/moebius-1938-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Moebius 1938-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing Science Fiction Age<\/em><\/a> could do during its run that no other science fiction magazines could\u2014since it was a large, full-color publication\u2014was include a six-page gallery each issue, usually focused on the work of a single artist. It was inevitable that the visionary Jean Giraud, better known (well, to some) by his pseudonym Moebius, would be one of those artists.<\/p>\n

Giraud, who passed away earlier today of cancer, was a part of the magazine from the first issue. Though we never commissioned original artwork\u2014he was out of our league in terms of paying for anything new out of our budget, so I’d go through his vast portfolio of existing work in attempts to match up pieces with stories that suited his spirit\u2014I enjoyed working with him.<\/p>\n

Check out the gallery below from our September 1996 issue as you\u2014as we all\u2014mourn the great artist today.<\/p>\n

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One thing Science Fiction Age could do during its run that no other science fiction magazines could\u2014since it was a large, full-color publication\u2014was include a six-page gallery each issue, usually focused on the work of a single artist. It was inevitable that the visionary Jean Giraud, better known (well, to some) by his pseudonym Moebius, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,17],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-obituaries","tag-science-fiction-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}