I remember first seeing his work as a kid and being blown away by his attention to detail and fluid designs. As someone whose work relies primarily on linework and fine detail, Mœbius has always been a huge inspiration to me. Zoe Thorogood (The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott).
The ease of his humor and sense of adventure, of the way he could bounce between different ideas in such a perfect rhythm, it is something that still inspires me the same way today as it did all those years ago. It’s so rare to find an artist who is so technically brilliant, but where even that fine level of draftmanship is just a fraction of the appeal of his work. When John DiFool is tossed off of Suicide Alley, in what may be one of the most iconic comic pages of all time, it was like finding a blueprint for all the stories and aesthetics that had informed my taste up to that point. In my late teens, there was a very special day when I was introduced to the work of Mœbius, paging through The Long Tomorrow, followed quickly by The Incal. James Stokoe (Alien: Dead Orbit, Orc Stain). So many treasures! Priceless given all the infinite inspiration that has flowed since. The range of styles and content was more diverse and unique than anything I’d ever seen! I loved what I was seeing so much and was so impatient to wait for each Marvel/Epic volume, that I obsessively looked for everything I could find at every comics shop and comic book convention I could get to. In fact, it was his work among a handful of others at the time (like the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets) that motivated me to seriously start creating my own work. Mœbius is easily “Top Ten” for me! In the mid ‘80s Marvel started releasing a “Mœbius Library” and his work lit me up with an indescribable energy. Here, then, are 13 of comics’ top creators - such as Mike Allred, Darick Robertson, Jason Aaron and many others - on the lasting impact of The Incal:
Humanoids’ has a new 40th anniversary edition out Tuesday - and so there could not possibly be a better time than now to have some of comics’ top artistes and auteurs weigh in on a timeless work that elevates its genre to the realm of literary, fine-art achievement. Beyond its sci-fi construction, there’s something if not quite religious, then certainly spiritual about the experience of reading this epic borne of two creative visionaries - Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mœbius. The Incal is one of those classic comics inevitably spoken of with deep reverence, almost in hushed tones. Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mœbius’ masterpiece The Incal turns a lusty 40 years old…
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