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Olivier Pichard.

Writer & illustrator · France

Olivier Pichard: French co-creator (with Cecile Brun) of the Onibi graphic-novel series — bande-dessinée-style travelogues through Japanese yokai folklore for ages 9–13.

Olivier Pichard is a French author-illustrator who, with Cecile Brun, co-creates the Onibi graphic-novel series, Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter, French-comic-style travelogues through Japanese yokai folklore, told as illustrated journals of a fictional couple exploring rural Japan. Pichard's style is loose, watercoloury and atmospheric, in the European bande-dessinée tradition. A reliable contemporary middle-grade graphic-novel author for ages 9–13 interested in Japanese folklore.