So long, cowboy...

Jean Giraud "Gir"/"Moebius", immense dessinateur, artiste visionnaire, géant de la bande dessinée, s'est envolé hier 10 mars 2012, à l'âge de 73 ans.

Une bien triste nouvelle pour des milliers de fans, lecteurs et confrères auteurs, que ce Génie (oui, avec une majuscule) du dessin a fait tant rêver.

Giraud a été d'une influence majeure pour d'innombrables dessinateurs, moi inclus, et j'ai immédiatement voulu lui rendre hommage par ce dessin réalisé entre hier et aujourd'hui...

Jean Giraud, also known as "Gir" and "Moebius", one of the greatest illustrators ever, a visionary artist and a comic book giant, has just passed away yesterday March 10th, 2012, at age 73.

Deeply sad news for thousands of fans, readers and fellow comics authors, whom this Genius (with capital "G", yes) has so much made dream.

Giraud was of major influence on countless illustrators, me included, and I immediately wanted to pay him tribute by making this drawing this week end...

Lincoln's "House Divided Speech"

Excerpt from my Graphic Biography "The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln" (Part One "The Road to the Presidency"), scriptwritten by Erik Svane, which will hopefully be published in 2012.

The Shoes Maketh The Man

Congratulations to Tarek Sursock, a friend of mine who is the Director of "The Shoes Maketh The Man", a brilliant Short Movie which just won the Award for Best Short Film this year at the Canada International Film Festival of Vancouver !!!

A well-deserved award for him and his crew, and I am very proud to have made the Poster for the Film last year !

Some links for more information on this Film :

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shoes-Maketh-The-Man-2010/207603699253684

http://www.canadafilmfestival.com/Festival/2011OfficialSelections/tabid/395/Default.aspx

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1722474/

"General Leonardo" Concept Illustrations

Zagadon le flibustier / Zagadon the Buccaneer ( Original Creation by Dan Greenberg )

Erik Svane & Dan Greenberg commemorating Abraham Lincoln...

      ...In New York City, February 27 2010, for the 150th Anniversary of Honest Abe's "Cooper Union Address", the Speech that is believed to have made him elected President of the United States in 1860.

      Here is in preview three pages of the Erik Svane-Dan Greenberg upcoming Graphic Biography "The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln" Volume 1, depicting the "Cooper Union" Speech sequence...