Cas de Disparition de Poulpe ! ( Case of the Missing Octopus ! ) 

Silent Animated Comic - 2023 

Cette bande dessinée animée sans paroles met en scène un groupe de personnages qui, à la suite de la disparition d’un simple poulpe, imposent leurs propres logiques et slogans grandiloquents, jusqu’à désigner un responsable. Identifiés uniquement par des chiffres, les personnages cessent rapidement de chercher le poulpe et commencent à mobiliser des arguments sans rapport les uns avec les autres — démocratie, responsabilité, transparence, véganisme — faisant progressivement dégénérer l’affaire en une situation incontrôlable.

Alors que personne ne s’intéresse réellement à ce qui s’est passé, l’un des personnages est désigné comme bouc émissaire et puni. Puis, une fois que tout est terminé, les poulpes réapparaissent dans la rue comme si rien ne s’était passé. En combinant une succession de cases de bande dessinée figées, une esthétique 3D low-poly volontairement sèche et l’absence de son, l’œuvre observe avec un humour cynique la manière dont un incident dérisoire peut se transformer en un chaos absurde sous l’effet de grandes causes et de certitudes collectives.

This silent animated comic follows a group of characters who, following the disappearance of a single octopus, impose their own logic and grandiose slogans on the situation until they eventually identify someone to blame. Identified only by numbers, the characters quickly stop looking for the missing octopus and begin invoking completely unrelated arguments—democracy, responsibility, transparency, veganism—gradually turning the incident into an uncontrollable spectacle.

While no one is actually interested in what happened, one character is singled out as a scapegoat and punished. Then, once everything is over, the octopuses appear in the street as if nothing had happened. Combining a sequence of static comic panels with a deliberately dry low-poly 3D aesthetic and the absence of sound, the work uses cynical humor to observe how a trivial incident can spiral into an absurd spectacle under the weight of grand causes and collective certainties.

English Translation

(1) 

1: They’re gone! 

3: What?

2: What’s going on?

1: The free octopuses are gone!!!

(2) 

5: This is impossible! Who’s responsible? 

3: Free octopus? Never heard of it. 

4: I don’t like octopus. 2: We have to respect vegans!! 

5: This is an act against democracy! Who monopolized the octopuses?! 

What did the person responsible do?! Explain yourselves! 

3: What are you talking about? I’ve never heard anything like this.

(3) 

5: Why didn’t you tell the truth so everyone could know? 

Democracy must be fair and transparent! Make it public on a massive scale and apologize! 

1: But they disappeared while I was in the toilet! And I’m not responsible! 

2: Take responsibility!

(4) 

5: My comrades, our democracy has been defended. 

6: Hey, there are octopuses in the street. What’s going on?

(5) 

Case of the missing octopus!