Gah. There were so many. I collected European comics for over fifteen years before ever reading my third superhero comic.
For example I was thinking about some of Miguelanxo Prado's comics, who is actually Spanish, but works in France, especially "Trait de craie" (1993). That comic opens with a page showing a boat on a stormy sea for several panels, then the next page starts with a panel with an overturned cup and the corner of a map, then the next panel shows the guy bent over the sea map, then the camera follows him as he goes on deck, then we go from being behind him to seeing the see and the coast from his eyes, then the land comes closer, and the first text only appears as the boat docks. It's not exactly like those manga examples McCloud gives, but it is purely visual very film-like sequence without words easing you into the story. In that comic there are several sequences staring with a zoom on a detail, like the mast of a ship, then zooming out over a few panels to a bird's view, then zooming in from that to a person, then suddenly showing some detail again, like some seagull, etc.
Or some of Cosey's comics (who's from the French speaking part of Switzerland), like iirc A la recherche de Peter Pan (1984/5) was quite cinematic.
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For example I was thinking about some of Miguelanxo Prado's comics, who is actually Spanish, but works in France, especially "Trait de craie" (1993). That comic opens with a page showing a boat on a stormy sea for several panels, then the next page starts with a panel with an overturned cup and the corner of a map, then the next panel shows the guy bent over the sea map, then the camera follows him as he goes on deck, then we go from being behind him to seeing the see and the coast from his eyes, then the land comes closer, and the first text only appears as the boat docks. It's not exactly like those manga examples McCloud gives, but it is purely visual very film-like sequence without words easing you into the story. In that comic there are several sequences staring with a zoom on a detail, like the mast of a ship, then zooming out over a few panels to a bird's view, then zooming in from that to a person, then suddenly showing some detail again, like some seagull, etc.
Or some of Cosey's comics (who's from the French speaking part of Switzerland), like iirc A la recherche de Peter Pan (1984/5) was quite cinematic.