What did you do for your school project? I made a really rubbish pen holder in the shape of a cartoon character famous back in the day, which my mother still has on a mantlepiece somewhere. I look back and am not proud. When French student Tristan Farneau and his classmate reminisce in 20 years time, though, they will have plenty to feel happy about. They made Marvel 75th, and it’s awesome.

The site is an interactive data visualisation designed to celebrate three quarters of a century of Marvel comics, and – get this – it’s better than the comic book company’s own microsite, which is a little heavy on advertising current comics for our taste.

“We produced this website for a project at school,” says Farneau, “The subject was to use Marvel Data via the API, so we decided to create a retrospective on the last 75 years of Marvel. We are not affiliated with Marvel, however they contacted us few days ago, because people were thinking that it was an official project.”

Check out their’ work here. Best run in full screen.