Meeting the Master
If you follow me on either Facebook or Twitter, I posted about meeting one of my heroes in Jean “MOEBIUS” Giraud at CTN Expo last weekend. I also had the pleasure of attending the 2 hour retrospective called An Evening with Moebius which was hosted by acclaimed disney director Jon Musker.
At the end of the evening, Moebius graced everyone with a couple of drawing demos which I filmed with my iPhone 4 and now have the pleasure of sharing it with you.
Behind his rather soft spoken demeanor is a man with a tremendous sense of humor. On Saturday he was walking the exhibit floor and stopped by my table. (I introduced myself briefly the night before but I’m not sure if he remembered me) As he perused my sketchbook ALTERNATING CURRENTS he laughed out loud at one of my sketches. (of an Astronaut with a tube connected to a floating toilet) That same liberal use of absurdity is prevalent in his work and most probably what was the impetus for the sketch in the first place. I said to him “see what you started?”.
Seeing him flip the pages of STEEL NOODLES Number 1 and hearing him say in a low tone “beautiful” was as close to perfection as I can describe. He loves to tell cinematic stories in the form of comics. “it’s my way of making my own movies” he says during the talk. Yet another validation to me for my story telling choices. In a substantial way, Steel Noodles isn’t possible without Moebius. So handing him a copy was a way of completing the circle. Now I feel re-energized and reminded why I love to draw. And it is all due to the man who got my mind going in the first place.