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This appears in the The Emerald Lake: From Gir to Moebius where it is labelled as the earliest example of a Giraud comic strip. It is untitled and I'm not sure if this was published anywhere until decades later.

I think the art here is already quite good, although possibly very derivative of other artists of the time (I don't know what comics he would have been seeing prior to this). The final panel is good except I personally think it would work better to leave out the line of Mr. Tiburce screaming in frustration, just end it with the confounded worker's statement as the punch line.

Also, very lucky for the sake of translation that "silence" is the same in French and English!

A lot of flag-waving in the USA today. I acknowledged the holiday by watching Jaws on the big screen. Not my favorite movie by a long shot, but it is tradition.

This piece is in a tribute book published by Kitchen Sink Press, including many artists doing their tributes to Moebius (and specifically Arzach)... I'll include the Jaime Hernandez one in the comments, it's cool to have them existing in the same comics world for a moment.

I hadn't seen this one prior to seeing it in a Facebook post yesterday. This could pass as a Far Side comic. I'm seeking information about its initial publication.

From Pilote #516 (September 25 1969).

Thanks to u/Abject_Truth_6091 for help with many aspects of this one...

...including explaining who the character is at the end of page 1, a recurring gag character in Pilote (perhaps the nearest American equivalent would be Alfred E. Neuman in the pages of MAD). This character is named Molyneux and is usually found wearing pajamas and a dressing gown, having a smoke in an otherwise deserted train station, supposedly based on a true story of a passenger who went out for a smoke in the middle of the night and didn't make it back to his train in time.

1. b&w as it appeared in Cheval Noir issue 40 (March 1993)
2. color as it appeared in The Man from the Ciguri TPB (1996, although dated 1994)
3. slightly different colors as it appeared in the bonus material of the Moebius Library edition of The Major (2024)

I'm curious why this image from the Ciguri story was included in The Major. Aside from the obvious fact that it includes the Major, why would a page from an earlier episode be tacked on in the bonus content?

The page itself is also (within the Man from the Ciguri) a painting showing a scene of an event that happened within the original Airtight Garage story (I will post that page, dated 1977, in the comments).

I believe this was first published in 2001 as an ex-libris (bookplate) for the initial publication of SRA, please correct me if you have an earlier publication date.

I love the way this looks and I wouldn't have guessed this was made at the same time as the material in SRA because to me this style looks so much more like "classic Moebius", possibly largely down to the way it is colored, which is more in line with the beautiful coloring found in The Goddess or earlier.

From Total Journal 28 (1970 07); available in De Gir a Moebius: Le Lac Des Emeraudes (2019)

Thanks to u/Abject_Truth_6091

The "P. Luckner" credit is kind of an Easter egg for Blueberry fans, a reference to Prosit Luckner from The Lost Dutchman's Mine and The Ghost with Golden Bullets. I also like that one of the pages here has a small "LUCK" signature in one of the panels, similar to "GIR".

This popular image appears in The Art of Edena (2018) without explanation. I'd like to know the year and title as well as first publication. I know part of this info is available in the 2021 Italian/French book Alla Ricerca del Tempo/à la Recherche du Temps which I do not own. If anyone can help, please fill me in! Otherwise, simply enjoy this fascinating image of the Major maybe just stopping at a sort of unusual roadside attraction.

EDIT: Yes, this is for sure a Moebius image. I'm trying to determine where it first appeared. According to u/Abject_Truth_6091, a catalogue for an art exhibit lists it as the following:

Piège de crystal (2008), watercolors, colored inks and aerography.

So I'm wondering if this was initially a limited print, part of another publication, etc.

Hand-colored screenprint (edition of 200), included in The Art of Edena in a section with other "crystal" drawings.

From Super As #1, February 13 1979.

I don't think these two pages are in any English edition... I have the Broken Nose story in the Blueberry 3 TPB (1989, Epic/Marvel) and these pages don't appear there.

There had been an unusually long gap between Blueberry stories and the creators probably felt a longer-than-usual recap would be appreciated by readers.

This artwork was included in an introduction in the Blueberry Integrales series, where it is marked unpublished. Had this page appeared anywhere prior to that? One possible explanation is that this was prepared for Pilote but abandoned when Charlier and Gir took Blueberry to the Tintin magazine. I don't know the full reasons why they would have split.

Anyway, Angel Face is a hell of a story that was published in 1975, I think even strict Moebius fans who have no interest in Gir would enjoy it because the artwork is quite similar to "classic Moebius" in places.

It's not often we get a new addition to the Dark Horse Moebius Library! English readers rejoice, the Depressed Hunter is finally available for sale, professionally translated! Available at book stores today (Tuesday) and comic book stores tomorrow (Wednesday).

From Pilote 699, March 29 1973.

From Pilote 646, March 23 1972.

Thanks to u/Aject_Truth_6091.

From Pilote 565, September 3 1970.

I was happy to finally find a title (In English, "An Angel Above") and date (1997) for this image in an art catalogue. This first image appears in The Art of Edena in the midst of material created much later for the 2010 promotional portfolio Les Voyages d’Hermès. Why this image is associated with Edena, I don't know. Maybe the non-Major humanoid figures are meant to be Stel and Atan.

But look at image #2! This image can be found in bonus material at the end of some editions of The Major, including the Moebius Library edition from Dark Horse. What happened? What year was this? What is the title? How was it made? Some facts lead to more questions!

Does anyone know if this image was published elsewhere prior to Negative Burn #11 in 1994? I've seen several images on this theme, with Starwatcher-like characters gazing at floating geometric shapes. Was this a series Moebius put together or was it a more informal theme he would routinely return to? Anyone know if the piece has a title?

1. The image as it appears in The Art of Edena (2018).
2. The cover of Negative Burn #11 (1994).