Jean Giraud AKA Moebius; holy shit what can one even say about this man. Moebius for the quite some time has been one of my favorite graphic novel/comic artists around, his amazing use of line to create form is something to be jealous of, and his sense of color is just beautiful. Moebius throws us into these fantastic landscapes and with no dialogue is able to progress the story just as well as anyone else could. Moebius may perhaps be one of the greatest graphic novelists of our time.
Mr. Natural is a classic Crumb comic about the titular character: the wonderful guru Mr. Natural. As having already been familiar with Crumb's work I felt particularly drawn towards his work, and Mr. Natural is no exception. I very much enjoyed reading this along with other Crumb works I was very happy to even get a chance to read these comics, as always Mr. Natural gets up to his antics and is either being a real nuisance or giving sound advice you never truly know what to expect from him. There were definitely some issues with Crumb's work which make it a bit more on the insensitive side, however I believe what Crumb does for the underground comic movement is vitally important as well as really imbuing a striking confidence in his female characters which I believe certainly helped some women with their body image, considering that is what one of his wives once said. All around Crumb may have been curmudgeonly and crude but as a comic artist he was so important, and truly was...
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