This article at the European news clearinghouse puts into one place a bunch of information about the Soleil/Marvel "strategic alliance" announced the week before this year's Angouleme. It starts with an interesting piece of trivia -- Soleil was interested in doing this in the late '90s, and apparently spoke with Image Comics, but it was too difficult to convert Soleil's various series into comic books. This would add emphasis to the fact that it's growth in the trade paperback format market that makes this deal attractive enough to do. The article also notes that Soleil also now partners with Marvel's French-language market publisher Panini, which not only encompasses Marvel's comics but a few cherry-picked other series that have been translated over there.
The first series will be Sky.Doll, Samourai et Universal War One.
