Stunning background art paintings from Mamoru Oshii's Ghost In The Shell (1995) by Kusamori Shuichi, as collected in his 2025 BG art book. Explore more in my review; link in comments below 👇
Jean-Claude Mézières (1938–2022) was a legendary French comic artist and one of the most influential visionaries in science fiction illustration. His aesthetic helped shape the visual universe of Luc Besson’s 1997 film The Fifth Element, where he worked as a concept artist. Many of the film’s iconic elements—layered megacities, flying traffic lanes, and eccentric extraterrestrial environments—echo the visual language he had developed decades earlier in his comics.
For a series that was almost entirely lost media up until like a year ago, this intro goes incredibly hard. Imagine sitting on this for 30 years & going "Yeah absolutely nobody cares about this"