The new cartoon Marc-Antoine Mathieu is a book-object that will soon become cult as its realization sticks to its original concept. This UFO (olibrius seeing unidentifiable) is a direct cousin of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up movie and especially Michael Snow's Wavelength for the film and its devious photographic story Cover To Cover. First he approached a police investigation whose son to take the magnification of an image, the second with a long zoom, single sequence shot with mirror effects produce breathtaking shot-reverse-effects where lies the key of the plot. All without words, only by the talent of the artist-writer. By acquiring the paper version published by Editions Delcourt we illico access to a website where we are offered a digital version. Illico is the word since the action, slowed at the discretion of the player, lasts exactly three seconds. No gadget here, but two ways to read the story and appreciate the art of Marc-Antoine Mathieu. His comics can be regarded as the storyboard of the film, the reading speed is adjustable in one way or another, a snowien effect there too! I thought again of the excellent series The Shapes of the invisible by Pierre Oscar Levy where you zoom into matter to the infinitely small to start back to the infinitely large. Jean Cocteau, in Chapter Distances of his Journal of a precise unknown although there is nothing great or small, but only distances. Driven by many anagrams, reflections almost palindromic, clues to deciphering the photon trajectory that takes us to the moon, on the site, subject to a forum (spoiler) where struggling readers as at the launch of Mulholland Drive.
