Média-Participations subsidiaries, animation/webtoon company Ellipse Studio and webtoon platform Ono, have partnered with Korean webtoon studio Kenaz to launch the first Webtoon Academy outside of Asia.

The 13-week free programmes aim to train 12 artists a year in webtoon-specific storytelling. Média-Participations’ CEO, Julien Papelier, said the aim was to “encourage the emergence and training of new French-speaking authors in this medium”.