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French comics author (1938–2012)

This article is about the French comic book artist. For the French mathematician, see Jean Giraud (mathematician). For the French film director and screenwriter, see Jean Girault.

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French:[ʒiʁo]; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition.

Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonymMœbius (;^[1]French:[møbjys]) for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir (French:[ʒiʁ]), which he used for the Blueberry series and his other Western-themed work.

Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others,^[2] he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé.^[3]

His most famous body of work as Gir concerns the Blueberry series, created with writer Jea