GLENAT: 40 YEARS OF PUBLISHING

Formed in 1969, Editions Glénat is now established as the main independent publisher in the marketplace. In 40 years, what has now become the Glénat group has created a range of product centred around  real passions which the publisher wants his readers to share.
Glénat’s product is based, therefore, around 4 main areas:

1. Comic strip: With more than 300 albums produced each year, the Glénat Group is an inevitable part of French publishing. With quality-labels Glénat, Vents d’Ouest and Drugstore our catalogue is one of the richest and most varied, with more than 6 000 titles of all types.
The group’s comic strip product is structured around these quality-labels and covers a broad spectrum of subjects and readers:

• Adult Comic Strip with adventure and science fiction series, detective novels or  historical sagas
• Humorous  Comic Strip with great authors and satirical journalists
• Youth Comic Strip and the Tchô collection
• The Graphic Novel is growing in size with dedicated collections such as Intégra, Treize Etrange or Mille Feuilles

Glénat produces the best-seller of French publishing: the comic strip Titeuf sold in more than 20 million copies and translated into 25 languages.

2. Manga: At the end of the eighties, Editions Glénat was the first European publisher of Manga outside Japan (Akira, Dragon Ball).
Today Editions Glénat publishes almost 200 Mangas a year and remains a very influential publisher in the French market with series such as One Piece, Bleach, Berserk …

3. Books for the Young: Glénat Editions has a quality-label devoted to illustrated books for the young, from 3-8 years: P’tit Glénat. This label, already multi-printed, is coming up to about 15 new editions per year.

4. Fine Books about Mountains, the Sea and Gastronomy. Our books invite you to discover the world in all its best diversity. Through our practical guides, our beautiful illustrated books and our tales of adventure, we want, above all, to examine our world in order to understand it better, to show its wonders, or to encourage their preservation.
Our upmarket Gastronomique collection concentrates on the great, starred Chefs (Paul Bocuse, Ann-Sophie Pic….). Glénat’s ambition is to stand out from their competitors with different books, which are like their chefs. Every chef’s work tells the story of his training, his tastes, his culinary practices, and gives, of course, all his most outstanding recipes.
Each chef‘s diversity is shown by a layout and format which is always original and refined.

Key Figures:

PARTNERSHIP WITH LUKE BESSON (EUROPACORP): THE BROADCASTING AMBITION.

In October, 2008 EuropaCorp, producer and distributor of films, and one of the very first independent cinema studios in Europe, and Editions Glénat, first independent publisher  of comic strip in Europe, announced the signing of an association concerning the broadcasting adaptation rights of comic strip published by Glénat: EuropaGlénat

Through this agreement, EuropaCorp’s know-how in the management of broadcasting rights will facilitate the development of potential in the cinema and on television of the  properties held by Glénat across the range of their different catalogues.
Thanks to this partnership, Editions Glénat thus have a firm opening into the world of broadcasting and  cinema.