More Moebius -- now with added Miyazaki

Drawing by Moebius from the magazine Libération, 1991

Well, I'm afraid that I went a bit crazy with my credit card on the internet. One of the things that grabbed my attention when I was reading about Moebius the other day was the claim that he and Miyazaki are fans of each others' work. I started thinking about that, and it occurred to me that Moebius was an influence on Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. So I was googling around today and found a conversation between Moebius and Miyazaki in which Miyazaki says, "I directed Nausicaä under Moebius' influence." That seemed pretty straightforward, and further googling led me to order the first volume of the Nausicaä manga, where the connection is pretty danged obvious.



A page from Miyazaki's Nausicaä

From there it was damn the torpedos, and I ordered copies of Moebius' Arzach and the complete Airtight Garage. It turns out, by the way, that there was a joint exhibition of Miyazaki and Moebius' artwork in Paris in 2004. There's a drawing of Nausicaä by Moebius that may come from that exhibition. That latter image is from a website called Quenched Consciousness that has lots and lots of artwork by Moebius, including full stories.