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Shackleton, Dargaud's English-speaking manager of foreign rights based in Paris, describes the French comics market—where albums are treated as legitimate literature rather than disposable entertainment—and explains why Dargaud's earlier direct US distribution effort for Asterix and Valerian underperformed. She discusses global licensing across roughly 30 countries and languages, content censorship challenges in Germany, Scandinavia, and Asia, the recent market saturation and reduction in Dargaud's annual output from 100 to 70–80 titles, and the contrast between the French hardcover album tradition and Anglo-Saxon publishing norms.