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| well, moebius still does a lot of work...but it's in french. i was in paris a few months ago and found all kinds of things i'd never even heard of! (i couldn't afford them all unfortunately, or i'd be much happier.) if you can read french, you can probably order them over the internet. maybe there was just a vogue for his work in the eighties, his seventies work influencing many then-aspiring professionals and though we have many many options available to us now, the tenor of the comics scene is a little different than it was when moebius was first making comics in france and then later their english translations. is the public clamoring for moebius? when i read my copies of epic illustrated i look at all the talented people who were working in the field and wonder what happened to them? lots of them are still working...but who cares? i'm always surprised how rarely the artists with strong illustrative talent are acknowledged in the field, (as if people go too far outside of traditional comics style, then their artwork becomes not-comics). perhaps it could just be chalked up the different sensibilities of the general american audience. his comics tend to be very whimsical and meandering and that's just (it seems, correct me if i'm wrong) tolerated/appreciated more in europe. he just tells his own stories, doesn't work on corporate characters, i'm sure there are any number of reasons why his work isn't available. |
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