In the first volume, we met Olive, a seventeen year old young woman with autism who lives between the real world and an imaginary world that she created in her mind in order to escape her. daily. Her inner world finds herself one day disturbed by the arrival of astronaut Lenny Popincourt and her reality by that of a roommate, Charly. We learn that Lenny is wanted by the world, since his capsule lost contact on his return from a lunar expedition.
Olive is convinced that the real Lenny comes into contact with her through her fantasy world and calls for help. He asks her to go looking for him, because he is in mortal danger and he is injured. A mysterious connection seems to bind Olive and Lenny, especially as the latter calls out to her with the enigmatic first name of Ava … She takes it into her head to find him before it is too late, but no one believes her, except Charly, her roommate, who agrees to help her in her research.
- Vero Cazot and Lucy Mazel – Hello earth? – © Dupuis
Allo la terre? is the second album in a series that will count four in the end. This second volume nevertheless brings many answers and revelations to the plot unveiled in the previous album, while bringing new mysteries for the next one. The first two albums form a diptych of the most interesting which already allows for a complete adventure, and a strong desire to discover the rest. The first volume, which has experienced many dissemination difficulties because of successive lockdowns, emerges at the same time as a new action against the pandemic, an opportunity for readers who would have missed out on being able to catch up with its discovery.
- Vero Cazot and Lucy Mazel – Hello earth? – © Dupuis
Olive it is first and foremost a series that talks about difference, autism, subjects little covered in the manner of a quest in comics. In this second volume, the screenwriter Vero Cazot gives more depth to her characters, in particular that of Olive which evolves positively. From now on she leaves for her imaginary world, less to escape reality than to investigate. Her relationship with others is always complicated, of course, but she begins to open up to Charly and becomes less rigid about her rituals.
- Vero Cazot and Lucy Mazel – Hello earth? – © Dupuis
The drawings of Lucy Mazel are beautiful and poetic. In particular thanks to its sublime coloring in watercolor. They are still so sought after, marking the difference between the two worlds, the real and the imaginary. His characters, despite their seemingly banal appearance, are extremely endearing. The expressions Lucy Mazel gives them manage to convey many feelings. We feel their distress, their sadness, just through their eyes.
- Vero Cazot and Lucy Mazel – Hello earth? – © Dupuis
The play of light is dazzling, from the first board, with its splendid scene on the Moon. It must be said, if the graphics of the first volume were already really beautiful, Lucy Mazel succeeds in the feat of improving it even further in this second album!
- Vero Cazot and Lucy Mazel – Hello earth? – © Dupuis
Nominated during the last Angoulême festival in the “12-16 year-old youth” category, but also for the 2021 France Bleu comic book prize, (final proclamation in October 2021), Olive is a series that will appeal to the whole family, whether or not you care about autism.
- The Olive series is nominated for the 2021 France Bleu Comic Book Prize
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