Media-Participations, the European leader in French-language comics and manga and one of the major producers of animated cartoons in Europe, created Mediatoon, whose vocation is to oversee rights management in comic publishing and the group’s audiovisual production. The Mediatoon Foreign Rights department is responsible for selling licenses to international publishers, magazines and newspapers, and to the comic book publishers within the group: Dargaud, Dupuis, Lombard, Lucky Comics and Kana as well as a few independent publishers such as Les deux royaumes. Over 1.5million licensed editions of comic albums in foreign languages are sold every year in over 40countries and in more than 30languages.