Per this article from The Star, watchmaker Cartier has commissioned several comic artists from around the world to illustrate a comic on the “birth of the Ballon bleu de Cartier”
To celebrate its newest creation, Cartier went as far as to commission seven comic book artists who it deemed to have “the same aura of prestige as the seven simple letters of its name”. This talent pool – made up of Moebius (the pseudonym used by French artist Jean Giraud), Japanese manga artist Jirô Taniguchi, British artist Glen Baxter, Italian artist Lorenzo Mattotti, American Charles Burns, French artist Jean-Claude Floc’h and Belgian François Schuiten – put their heads together to come up with a beautiful comic book which illustrates the birth of the Ballon bleu de Cartier.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Sad whoring. Really unfortunate.
June 19th, 2007 at 5:19 am
“Whoring”? Just because they took on a corporate job? That’s an exceptionally stupid thing to say.
June 19th, 2007 at 8:18 am
If you’re going to call my statement stupid, please elaborate.
November 1st, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Hi there, just doing some research for my Cartier website. Can’t believe the amount of information out there. Not quite what i was looking for, but great site. Have a good day.