Moebious: 7

 For this reading I read the works by Moebious. I actually knew about this artist before reading, however I was only familiar with his impressive fine art and not so much the comics he apparently created. His works are very colorful, trippy yet tangible in their style. let me explain; they are hyper expressive worlds which make some sense once you get immersed in them and start to read them, however still keep a sense of abstract strangeness. it is not abstract enough to where you cannot identify that a person is a person or building a building, but the worlds are so strange in how they operate and look that they are hyper expressive. Moebious in his series offers us a strange look into the future, drawing from 80's and 70's sci fi. The look he gives us is one which is kinda difficult to describe. i also thought of it as Distant future stories, where the narrative is so far in the future it is completely out of touch with anything we are used to today, both in the way the world works and in the ways the characters interpret the world (such as not caring about death or turning themselves into a dog through body mods.)

Moebious's drawing are an amazing balance of cartoon expression with cool drawings that can be taken seriously when they need too. he uses a common technique of using humans to ground the story, but then from their shows us all kinds of strange looking monsters and other creatures. all of his drawings are very colorful and expressive, making them extremely inviting and just a blast to look at. it almost looks like the style of classic comics from the 40's, however updated to be a bit more graphic and a bit more real. but something that i personally like about it is it does not push it in such a way that it is overbearing or "gross" like many underground comics have, or even many modern ones. the style boils out anything that would be seen as too unpleasant for the reader and as a result its a very easily digestible comic for all (well maybe just most) readers. I also personally enjoy how much of what he draws has this trippy expressionism to it, such as when John meets the Orh. scenes like this are not used for simple shock value, they are used to progress the story and have a purpose in the narrative, not just to look like cool art. (even though they do.)