Anne Defréville is a visual artist, designer, illustrator and comics artist. She is deeply committed to ecology, and much of her comics work has focused on environmental and animal issues. She has worked in collaboration with INSERM (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and many environmental associations. Her bandes dessinées challenge anthropocentrism in creative, sometimes humorous, and always thought-provoking ways, shifting across autobiography, documentary and science fiction. She is the author of L’Age bleu [The blue age] (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Artemisia Prize for the Environment and the Mouans-Sartoux Prize for best environmental book; Journal anthropique de la cause animale [Anthropogenic diary of the animal cause] (2022); Mémoires d’un cétacé [Memoirs of a cetacean] (2023); and SEFARDIM, l’épopée d’une famille juive durant 3,000 ans [Sefardim, the 3,000-year saga of a Jewish family] (2023).

Rich in details on marine biodiversity, this album takes us on a discovery of cetaceans. What if knowing these mammals better allowed us to reconsider our behavior towards the ocean?
Earth, in the very distant future. Cetacean archaeologists unearth a dolphin's logbook in an Anthropocene stratum. As they read more pages, they deepen their knowledge of the lives of their ancestors and of a time (ours) where relationships between humans and cetaceans move from fascination to destruction and protection... collaboration with MIRACETI