(Probably Found) Help identify sci-fi gn,(possibly 70s French, fantastic worlds)

[mintap]

I remember reading this graphic novel some time ago. It involved a series of different stories. Here are some details I remember:

One story had something to do with the planet surface always moving and the people having to always move too. Someone didn't and ended up hanging upside down from a tree.

Another was an all female society that lived underground, or in some kind of pit. Men from one of the other worlds invade.

Another involved a sculptor in a closed city making a large female nude sculpture. Someone stealing someone elses ID card to enter the city.

Any ideas of which graphic novel this is? I tried google, but had no luck. Thanks.

 

[anno]

Check out Moebius, his work is phenomenal Arzak, Long Tomorrow etc.
Finest work is probably The Incal.

 

[mintap]

I love Moebius. For some reason that style has a high level of nostalgia for me. Maybe it was all that waking up early in the morning to watch Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea as a kid. This other comic I remember reading some time ago had a very similar feel. Also much like Rene Laloux's movies (Fantastic Planet, Time Masters, Gandahar). There is something about the 70s-80s French (and Belgian) style of sci-fi combining surrealism and more mystery. I'd love to see more of.

Also Heavy Metal is like that as well.

 

[hitmouse]

I dont recognise any of these as Moebius.

Interestingly, however, the film you mention, Time Masters, is largely Moebius

 

[JunkMonkey]

OK Eight or so years after the event I can actually name this one with certainty. I just read it. The constatnly moving world with the character ending up upside down is called La terre creuse - reissued as Zara - volume 2 of Les Terres Creuses by François and Luc Schuiten.

Though re-reading the OP's original question they obviously read the 'intégral' edition which collects all three volumes.

Les terres creuses -COF

www.bedetheque.com

 

[KiraAnn]

If French, it could have been Metal Hurlant aka Heavy Metal.

 

[JunkMonkey]

If French, it could have been Metal Hurlant aka Heavy Metal.

There are / were a lot more to French language comic magazines than Metal Hurlant.
Volume one (at least) of Le Terres creuses (which I am 100% positive this is) was first published in BoDoi, L'Echo des savanes, A Suivre..., or Pavilion Rouge. One of those. I have sections of it somewhere in my collections of those magazines.