According to the "fictional biography" pieced together by fans and Moebius himself, was born in 1958 in Baden-Oos, West Germany, to a German father and a Swedish mother. Visually, he is iconic: he wears a khaki colonial uniform, knee-high wool socks, combat boots (rangers), and his most defining feature—a colonial pith helmet topped with a traditional Prussian Pickelhaube spike .
Western military/journalistic attire (the classic colonial pith helmet Grubert wears) juxtaposed with Eastern mysticism represents a collision of rigid logic and fluid spirituality. major grubert thailand
In 1997, Moebius began a long, 12-year project simply titled The Major . This "psychedelic, sequential romp," collected in the Moebius Library: The Major (published by Dark Horse Comics), saw the artist return to the character in his twilight years. Here, Major Grubert is no longer just an adventurer; he is a philosophical proxy for Moebius himself. According to the "fictional biography" pieced together by