In the team around Moebius and Druillet, who founded in the 80s a publishing house called Les Humanoïdes Associés and published the magazine Métal Hurlant (francised in the US as "
Heavy Metal"), there were also Richard Corben and Gaetano Liberatore, two great painters of human beauty, scifi and fantasy.
Liberatore recently did a splendid book illustrating the life of a female australopitecus, based on sound science: Lucy, L'Espoir. Very little text in there, but many gorgeous drawings.
I used to love Corben, not least because of his sense of dark humor. The guy could invent and tell a great story, not just illustrate it wonderfully.