Moebius - Arzak : Destination Tassilli

About the book:

Riding his indefatigable pterodelph, Arzak tirelessly criss-crosses the mineral expanses, flies over the overheated sands and explores gorges and ravines. Nothing escapes his alert gaze, not the slightest rock lizard, nor patches of killer grass... Let the wolves and lambs of Tassili slit each other's throats in peace! Only one thing alerts his watchful eye: the anomaly!

More than ten years after Arzak l'Arpenteur (2009), discover the sequel to this cosmic odyssey featuring Jean Giraud Moebius's iconic hero with the pointy hat...

This 'Corpus' publication takes a special form, offering a reading experience in several stages. First, you (re)read Arzak l'Arpenteur in its computer-coloured version, starting with the image, the dialogue or both at the same time. In the second part, discover the beautiful black and white suite, without words, drawn in Indian ink and reworked in places on the computer. Finally, in the last part, compiled from archives and research work, view the ending with its many threads of intrigue and denouements. The 248-page book is rounded off by a dossier of illustrations, including scenes and plates reworked by Moebius and texts written by the author and his wife, Isabelle Giraud.

This magnificent 248-page work, combining stories and illustrations, celebrates Moebius's mythical hero across two fascinating volumes and a bonus section of around thirty pages. Arzak: Destination Tassili is a reissue and, at the same time, something completely new. Those of you who have already read Arzak l'Arpenteur, and who have been eagerly awaiting the sequel -here it is! But not quite in the way you imagined...

About the artist:

More than just a character born from the imagination of the absolutely pure genius of Moebius, aka Jean Giraud, Arzak is above all, an heroic alter ego of the artist himself. To follow the adventures of Arzak is to follow the adventures, both real and fantasized, of this iconic artist. This new artbook is a dizzying plunge into the surreal, psychedelic world of Arzak and his faithful prehistoric bird.

This eight-chapter book takes us on a journey to discover the many inscrutable facets of this character with no predicatably specific age, no predictably recognizable appearance, and not even a predictable gender; a truly metamorphic hero emblematic of Moebius's work. Appearing in different guises at different times in his life, even his very name is an enigma!  Who really is Arzak?

The publication of this first volume, inaugurating a brand-new collection initiated by Moebius Production and entitled "Le petit panthéon Moebius", will finally provide us opportunity to unravel the mysteries of L'Oeuvre hérmétique.

It all began with the arrival of a brand new character in my personal little pantheon. A very special character indeed because he was of my own image, my self as a comics hero in a series titled Inside Moebius.

- Moebius

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