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Farewell to Jean Giraud a.k.a. Moebius

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Farewell to Jean Giraud a.k.a. Moebius

On the 10th March 2012, French master comic book artist and storyteller Jean Giraud died aged 73. He was the finest artist of his kind and a virtually silent contributor to an entire genre of science fiction that producers to this day continue to build upon. Giraud earned worldwide fame, predominantly under the pseudonym Moebius,…

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Passage: Star Wars concept designer Ralph McQuarrie

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Passage: Star Wars concept designer Ralph McQuarrie

Farewell to Ralph McQuarrie, the man behind such timeless and culture-shifting Star Wars characters as Darth Vader, R2-D2, and C-3PO. He was 82 when he died in his home on Saturday the 3rd of March 2012. McQuarrie joined George Lucas in 1974 to help conceptualise what were to become the defining images of the blockbuster…

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