Is it Comics?: An Interesting Fence-Sitter

Got this in the mail last night:

My name is Ira Marcks. I am a cartoonist from NY who recently collaborated with Jake Lodwick (founder of Vimeo) on an experimental illustration/animation project.

It's sort of like a 45 minute music video with one sliding frame. But it's also like a graphic novel told in a single, 50 foot long panel.

I settled on the term 'Illustrative Score' to describe the project and it's method.

Check out Ira and Jake's stimulating results here (and Ira's personal site