Between 1970 and 72, he tackles animation in the association aaa (Atelier d'Animation d'Annecy) with the free jazz delirium of the Judgement Dernier and the hilarious Cagouince Migrateur.

In his report of the 1974 Grenoble festival, a critic of Art Vivant[3] defined the style of Évasion Expresse of "Crumbian"[3] graphics and splendidly black humor.

Évasion Expresse tells the story of a man sitting on the window side in a train compartment and who lets himself go to a fantasized vision of an appearance in the scrolling landscape... up to a "apotheosis".

Since then, the important magazines at that time solicited him: Actuel, Le Canard Sauvage, L'Écho des Savanes, Charlie Mensuel, Zinc, Hara-Kiri, Métal Hurlant, Surprise and Fluide Glacial.

He published in Charlie #84 "Le Complot chromatique" (English: The Chromatic Plot), a quite long black and white story that tells the bursting in of a small bright pink detail.

In order to construct his premonitory, dark, wrecked universe, Masse parses his erudite work of allusions, nods and pastiches with which he cheerfully massacre the doxa.

The cosmologist Jean-Philippe Uzan[6] pays tribute to him at the conference "La Cosmologie en Bande Dessinée" (English: The Cosmology in Comic Strip) (2011), referring to Alfred Jarry, he describes the album (Vue d'artiste) as an innovative "pataphore"[6] and he proposes to symbolically award Masse the title of Doctor of Pataphysics from the University of Paris VI, with his unanimous congratulations.

He describes the Masse's universe rather confusing at first, but advises that we are largely rewarded for efforts when diving into[7] and adds that On m'appelle l'Avalanche is certainly a major work of the ninth art.

[10] Similarly, in an interview with the magazine Les Inrockuptibles,[11] Art Spiegelman quotes Masse before Crumb and Tardi by saying that what he did was incredible, his work is important and very much underestimated.

[11] Although Masse has published in numerous magazines and produced about twenty albums, it has never aroused the enthusiasm of the public usually fond of comics, nevertheless his work is often acclaimed by the critic and by artists who quote him as a reference.

It is written in La lettre des Sables d'Olonne[14] that Masse is unique, his universe is dark and fantastic,[14] the author points out that Masse is the first, and still the only one,[14] having dealt with scientific problems in the comic strip with seriousness and fantasy,[14] he describes the style as intelligent popularization,[14] and it is a rather entertaining[14] and rather underestimated[14] genre, while explaining that his writing is close to Raymond Queneau or Marcel Aymé: One must read him as an author.

From February to April 2009, he appeared with Stéphane Blanquet, Gilbert Shelton, Joost Swarte and Chris Ware in the exhibition Quintet at the Contemporary Art Museum in Lyon.