A Challenge to Convention: Jean Giraud/Gir/Moebius
A Challenge to Convention: Jean Giraud/Gir/Moebius
This chapter focuses on Jean Giraud/Moebius, the most influential bandes dessinées artist after Hergé. Giraud experimented with genres typically associated with the United States (Westerns and science fiction), and he produced effects very different from those of American comics. The chapter evaluates Giraud's contribution to bande dessinée nouveau réalisme. Nouveaux réalistes no longer used historical events and actual places to produce effects of reality, as the ‘classical’, Hergéen realists had done. Instead, like their forerunners in the European avant-garde, nouveaux réalistes questioned where reality ends and where the imaginary begins. In so doing they asked what is known as ‘la question du réel’. Nouveau réalisme has no direct equivalent in American comics.
Keywords: Francophone comic strips, bandes dessinées, nouveau réalisme, realists
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