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Jean Giraud (born May 8, 1938) is a French comics artist. He is known under his own name, but also under the pseudonyms of Gir and Mœbius.

Jean Giraud is, with Jean-Michel Charlier , the creator of the western serial Blueberry, for which he's best known.

Giraud was born in Paris. At age 16, he began his only technical training at the Arts Appliqués. At 18, he was drawing his own comic strip, "Frank et Jeremie" for the magazine Far West.

In 1962 Giraud and writer Jean-Michel Charlier started the comic strip "Fort Navajo" for Pilote. It was a great hit and continued uninterrupted until 1974.

The Moebius pseudonym was born in 1963. In a satire magazine called Hara Kiri, Moebius did 21 strips between 1963 and 1964 and then disappeared for almost a decade. In 1975 Métal Hurlant (a magazine which he co-created) brought it back and in 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D he started his famous L'Incal series in collaboration with Alejandro Jodorowski. Moebius' famous serial The Airtight Garage also began in Métal Hurlant.

He has many times worked on design for science fiction filmsThe tone of science fiction films is often a guide to the tone of the times the film was made: other worlds and species are viewed in turn as wonderful, terrifying, threatening, incomprehensible, and childishly benign. The following list of science fictio such as Tron, AlienAlien ( 1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/ horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. Although the title characters are the highly aggressive extraterrestrial creatures, the real connecti, The AbyssThe Abyss is a science fiction film from 1989, directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. There is a cinema version (140 minutes) and a Director's Cut version (171 minutes). Underwater scenes were filmed and The Fifth ElementFifth Element, The The Fifth Element is a science fiction action movie starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich and Chris Tucker. Directed by Luc Besson. The Fifth Element places the hopes of all mankind on the shoulders of Korben Dall. He also worked on USThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in comics such as The Silver Surfer with Stan Lee. He cooperated with director René Laloux to create the science fiction feature-length animated movie Les Maîtres du temps (The Time Masters, 1982) based on a novel by Stefan Wul.

Giraud's prestige in France — where, generally speaking, comics are held in higher artistic regard than in the United States, where they are dismissed as children's entertainment — is enormous; there have even been postage stamps issued to commemorate him.