Dirty River

joellejones:

Blade Runner warm up doodle

Perfect. More, please ? Pretty please ?

genekjr:

Need to watch BLADE RUNNER again…

odios:

sciencefiction:These are fictional magazine covers from Blade Runner. They were created by production illustrator Tom Southwell in 1980-1981 and appeared in the background on a magazine stand in the city streets. (!!!!)

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drawing-bored:

Blade Runner, 1982

Los Angeles, november 2019

beautiful movie is beautiful.

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1187hunterwasser:

Wounded Animals

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warnerchild:

“it’s too bad she won’t live….but then again who does?”

opera4adults:

blade runner

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theairtightgarage:

The Long Tomorrow

Page 1, French black & white comparison

Hat tip to Louis for posting these on his blog.

Here’s a link to the complete story, in two versions (French/black & white and English/color)

For more Moebius goodness, see the rest of Quenched Consciousness, a blog dedicated to Moebius.

Quoting from the source of this image :

In Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures (BBC, 2007), O’Bannon was interviewed about the writing of the Moebius comic strip The Long Tomorrow for Metal Hurlant. The story displays the typical alienated urban dystopia that hallmarked the magazine in its heyday, and features a view down a nightmarish and overblown future cityscape. Talking of the period in which he worked with the famed French illustrator and artist on Alexander Jodorowsky’s ill-fated Dune project, O’Bannon says:

“After a while [Moebius] got tired of me looking over his shoulder, so he asked me to go and write him a comic-book story, a graphic story that he could publish in his magazine Metal Hurlant. It was of course a film noir in the future. […]

Responding to Moebius’s comments that the comic-strip was heavily mined for the look of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner in 1982, O’Bannon continues…

“Yeah, I know. Mainly the vertical design of that city. Ridley kind of did an unauthorised borrowing of that city for Blade Runner, and he’s right - it does make a good image!”

Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element also seems to owe the strip a pretty heavy visual debt, and not just by the proxy of Blade Runner either…

[Nota : Jean-Claude Mézières, the artist of Valérian, another classic French science-fiction comic, worked on The Fifth Element, and his style permeates the whole movie. George Lucas probably borrowed heavily from Mézières for Star Wars - I doubt the cantina scene would have looked like it does without Mézières]

[Nota 2: The stylistic similarities between The long Tomorrow and the beginning of the Incal are striking, to say the least]

So I spent the entire day posting Jean Giraud/Gir/Moebius art, and it just occured to me that maybe you don’t know who this guy was and why his work matters so much (some of you aren’t comics geeks, right? right?). You’ll find some information in this Paul Gravett article.

Let me just give you a small excerpt :

Take one look at Moebius’ short story The Long Tomorrow, published in Métal Hurlant magazine in 1977 and written by the late, great screenwriter, director and Star Wars special effects wizard Dan O’Bannon (1946-2009), and you’ll quickly see how much their soaring vertical cityscapes and gritty urban future inspired Blade Runner five years later. A lot of what we now take for granted as the modern cinematic style of science fiction can be sourced back to the French revolution in comics ignited by Moebius and his fellow innovators in the early Seventies.

stuble:

Cover for Moebius’  ”The Long Tomorrow”  which is a huge visual and setting influence on the film Blade Runner

And finally, because no homage to Moebius could be complete without it, a series of posts about The long Tomorrow and his influence on modern science fiction movies.

lipsofpoison:

my favourite artists (in no particular order) → tsuneo sanda