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I have not seen these images here and I thought they might be overlooked.

They are covers for albums in which Moebius is not further involved.

I really like them and I am happy to be corrected if they are well known.

The images were taken from Bedetheque.

Thank you all for this community.

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.

A video I made this week, it's got a lot of ingredients about geofs friendship and working relationship with Moebius

https://youtu.be/IdsnWSFGrZI?is=kGcfUMFh5hk5ZSuj

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.