Julius Corentin Acquefacques, prisonnier des rêves #1

Marc-Antoine Mathieu launches his surrealist Julius Corentin Acquefacques, prisonnier des rêves series with this striking 1990 Delcourt album, L'Origine. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a bespectacled, suited figure tumbles through a void, surrounded by scattered objects — a die, what appears to be a small box, and fragments of everyday life — suggesting a world where gravity and logic have quietly come undone. Mathieu handles every aspect of the work himself, and that singular vision is immediately apparent in the unsettling, quietly comic image of a man adrift between order and chaos.