French Comic Publishers
• Major Publishers
France is a major publisher of comics, or bandes dessine, where the art form is widely respected. It hosts an annual comics festival in Angouleme, home of the national comics museum, which sees the entire town taken over by comics, with almost every shop having some kind of comic tribute in the window. Publishers treat creators more like authors in the UK, where the artists and writers largely retain copyright on their own work. However, as I understand it from some UK creators who have found success there, as a non-established creator you would have to pitch an entire, completed work to a publisher in an attempt to be published.
Majors
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Albin Michel
22 rue Huyghens, 75014 Paris
Tel: 0033 1 42 79 10 00
Publishes graphic albums
Casterman
36 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris
In addition to home grown strips in album format Casterman also publishes manga
Dargaud
15-27 rue Moussorgski, 75018 Paris
Tel: 0033 153 26 32 32 Fax: 0033 1 53 26 32 00
Publishes graphic albums and manga
Delcourt
54, rue d'Hauteville 75010 Paris
Tel: 0033 1 56 03 92 20 Fax: 0033 1 56 03 92 30
Publishes graphic albums and comics
Fluide Glacial
33 avenue du Main, BP 187 75755 Paris
Tel: 0033 1 43 20 23 96
Publishes graphic albums and comics
Glenat
31-33 rue Ernest Renan, 92130, Issy-Les-Moulineaux
Tel: 0033 1 41 46 11 41 Fax: 0033 1 41 46 11 13
Publishes graphic albums. Publishers of the hilarious Titeuf
J'ai Lu
84 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
Tel: 0033 1 44 39 34 70
Manga publishers
Les Humanoides Associes
5 Passage Piver, 75011 Paris
tel: 0033 1 49 29 88 88 Fax: 0033 1 49 29 88 89
Publishes graphic albums
Semic France
44316 Nantes Cedex 03
Tel: 0033 2 51 86 14 14
Publishes graphic albums and licensed comics