‘Moebius Collector Cards’: Gallery of Moebius trading cards from the early 90s
The Coordinator
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud, or Moebius, is one of the great visionary cartoonists of our time. He cofounded the influential magazine Métal hurlant in 1975, which was the venue for his fantastic stories Arzach (which used no words at all) and The Airtight Garage. Moebius famously teamed up with Alexander Jodorowsky for the L’Incal series as well as the much-lamented movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, but it never came to pass.
In 1993 a company called Comic Images put out a gorgeous series called “Moebius Collector Cards,” of which there were about 100. We’ve selected a few for you below, but you can see the entire set at catawiki.
Sexual Sorceress
“Sir”
The Breeder
The White Citadel
The Airtight Garage
Armjourth
Police Robot
The Lippons
The Overlord of Vune
The Horny Goof
Arzach
Atan
Here’s a view of the back side of one of the cards: