Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon is a 1997 adventure video game, written by Paulo Coelho, who wrote The Pilgrimage, the novel on which the game is based. Pilgrim has been described as a "commercial cultural
Pilgrim, Faith as a Weapon cover
The second half of the game sees a tonal shift from the first. Upon meeting the character of Petrus (pictured), Pilgrim goes beyond a series of fetch-quests and becomes infused with the philosophies of Coelho's novel and encompasses a larger spiritual narrative.
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœ
Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon
…was founded as a subsidiary arm of Éditions Anne Carrière, the French publisher of work by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho and French cartoon artist Jean Giraud (also known as Mœbius). The subsidiary was created to specialise in the production of a genre of video games called "author games"; they chose Arxel…
Giraud working on plate 31b of Blueberry volume 20; "La tribu fantôme", ca. 1981
Mœbius cover art for Humanoids Publishing's 2014 US hardcover trade collection of The Incal.
Cauchemar Blanc DVD cover by Mœbius (excerpt from the titular bande dessinée)