The company, based in Monaco, also manages the rights of François Walthéry's Natacha and Le P'tit bout d'chique, and Léonid et Spoutnika by Yann and Philippe Bercovici among others.
He brought along his own creations Marsupilami and Gaston Lagaffe, and the company soon started launching a series of Marsupilami albums continuing publication of the character Franquin had created in 1952,[1] while working on the series Spirou et Fantasio for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou.
[2][3] The first publication La Queue du Marsupilami in 1987 with art by Batem and stories by Greg, launched its new series, which by 2007 had passed 20 issues.
Natacha made the switch from Dupuis to Marsu in 1989 with the album Cauchemirage, and ended serial production in Spirou.
[4] In 1992, Franquin also added worldwide rights of Gaston Lagaffe to Marsu, a series he also created for Spirou.