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This Is Moebius' Brain Off Drugs: Late Artist Gets High On Life

Inside Moebius is the last long-form book the legendary French comic artist completed before his death in 2012. It's a loopy story based on the notes he kept while weaning himself off of marijuana.
"Moebius Library: Inside Moebius Part 1" by Jean Giraud

Mind-altering substances have inspired artists for centuries, but going sober isn't usually associated with flights of wild creativity. Perhaps only the legendary French artist Jean Giraud, a.k.a. Moebius, could be so tickled, dizzied and generally thrown for a loop by the experience of giving up marijuana. is based on notebooks he kept after "weed[ing] himself out" in the early 2000s, but it reads more like the work of a drugs. It's sobriety as you've never seen it before.

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