What Star Wars Owes to French Comics

Beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, French comics artists revolutionized their medium and created groundbreaking works of science fiction. Artists like Jean-Claude Mézières, Philippe Druillet, and Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, had a significant, if rarely recognized, influence on many Hollywood films. Star Wars is one of the most prominent examples. “There are quite a few illustrators in the science-fiction and science-fantasy modes I like very much. I like them because their designs and imaginations