Have you already seen Titeuf in Grenoble?

Everyone knows this little guy from the comic books “Titeuf” with his blond quiff on his head and who always talks about Nadia, the girl of his dreams, or video games with his friends and always tells stories to his parents when he got a bad mark at school. But did you know that a little statue of him is in Grenoble?

If you went for a walk in the Antiquarian neighborhood, Titeuf might observe you. Indeed he overhangs the main entrance of the Sainte-Cécile convent where Glénat’s headquarters are based. Jacques Glénat created Glénat, a publishing house, 46 years ago in Grenoble.

For its 40^th birthday, its founder, still at the head of the company, set up the head office inside the convent after renovating it. By the way, if you wish to, you can visit it everyday and discover the world of the publishing house: books from cooking to extreme sports, mangas, press and comics, all the publications are available in a huge and modern bookcases. The success of Glénat started when it first introduced the history comics with “The Wind’s Knights”. Then it imported Japanese Culture in France throughout mangas such as “One Piece”, “Dragonball”.

Afterwards, 20 years ago, Zep created Titeuf, one of the biggest selling of Glénat from the first edition. 13 tomes later, the success of this little kid keeps growing. To celebrate this, in March 2011 when the latest tome released, they built Titeuf with his hands in the pocket in the frontage of the convent. After Saint-Cécile, Saint-Titeuf is keeping an eye on Glénat and all the walkers he sees all day and night long…

Check all Glénat’s publications on its website: http://www.glenat.com/