Brian Selznick's graphic novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" (2007) includes Selznick's drawing of a moon with a spaceship in its eye, an image based on "A Trip to the Moon", a 1902 film by Georges Méliès. In Selznick's story, it is by an automaton designed by Méliès. Further, it is both an image in Hugo Cabret's memory of his late father's story about seeing "A Trip to the Moon", and an image in his father's memory. Finally, the book claims it is a drawing by an automaton that created the book. The image is by the author, the automaton, the filmmaker, a boy, the boy's father, and the book itself. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 24 March 2026)
