Guillaume Renard, known by his pseudonym Run, created a seven-minute short film titled Mutafukaz: Operation BlackHead in 2003 and developed an interactive website about his universe, which he imagined as transmedia. Faced with the heavy constraints of the audiovisual sector, Run decided to bring life to his characters, Vinz and Angelino, in a comic book album. By the end of 2005, Run met Anthony Roux, also known as Tot, a founding figure and creative director of the company Ankama. Together, they believed the Franco-Belgian comic book industry needed to renew itself, as it pales in comparison to works published across the Atlantic and in East Asia. Tot had faced similar problems when trying to have his manga Dofus and artbook published, as existing publishers refused the project. He decided to publish them himself, investing through the game Dofus, unlike Run, who had no money at all. In 2006, Tot created the Ankama editions, which welcomed Run's projects and those of other authors. At the age of 30, Run signed the first volume of Mutafukaz, which was presented exclusively at the Japan Expo 2006. As a young structure, the Ankama editions had no distributor, so online purchase was the only way for readers to discover the adventures of the characters from Dark Meat City. The « Fnac Heart's Choice » award brought welcome light to the title and a distributor for Ankama editions. The Label 619, an « obscure » collection of the Ankama company, was created by Run, supported by Tot, who gave him free rein. Run surrounded himself with Dorothée Bachy, a layout designer for the titles of the Label until 2020, and Yuck, a friend and former art director of the Teamchman company. Together, they created the Label 619 and its graphic identity, all in reference to the final move of the American wrestler Rey Mysterio and the telephone area code of the city of San Diego (California), the Mecca of American comics. The first titles published were Debaser, a manga by author Rafchan (2008) and Freaks Squeele by Florent Maudoux (2008), an extremely rich universe that he has continued to develop since. Over the years, unavoidable encounters nourished the evolution of the Label. For example, Florent and Mathieu Bablet simply sent their project by email. For Florent, one of the first authors stamped « 619 », they had him come to the office, at the time when Run was an employee there. They clicked right away and talked more about nonsense than comics. With Mathieu, their first work exchanges were done remotely, he had signed without them having met personally. Then they met at the signing stand during a festival. Guillaume Singelin, on the other hand, was spotted online by a colleague. Run contacted him when he was still a student. He did some internships at Ankama before Run hired him for the pre-production of the film Mutafukaz, for which they went to Japan, in the premises of Studio 4°C. And after the film, they continued to work together very naturally. As for Neyef, Run noticed his style on a Dofus Monster. He simply told him: « If you have other projects in mind, you can show them to me. » That's how their « collaboration » began. From an independent structure to Rue de Sèvres: a success that continues. Together, these authors multiply projects and successes. Run (Heart's Choice Award - Quai des Bulles Festival 2015 for the conclusion of the first cycle of Mutafukaz, volume 5); Mathieu Bablet (finalist of the ACBD Critic Grand Prix in 2017 with Shangri-La, in 2021 with Carbone & Silicium and in 2025 with Silent Jenny; Official Selection at Angoulême in 2017, Fnac/France Inter Comic Book Award 2021, Science Fiction Comic Book Award 2025); Neyef (Hoka Hey! Bookstore Comic Book Award 2023 and Cezam Comic Book Award 2024); Florent Maudoux (Quais du Polar Comic Book Award 2023 for A Short Story - The Real History of the Black Dahlia on a script by Run) and Guillaume Singelin (Eco-Fauve Raja 2024, Landerneau Award, Heart's Choice Award of the Quai des Bulles festival, BDGest’Arts (2023) for Frontier, also finalist of the Fnac France Inter Comic Book Award 2024 and the Canal BD Bookstore Award 2024, official selection at Angoulême for the fourth volume of The Grocery on a script by Aurélien Ducoudray). Each in their own way has indelibly marked critics and the public of recent years. Meanwhile, in 2018, the Label 619 becomes independent and Run leaves the staff of Ankama editions with whom he continues his collaboration. The management of the entity evolves. Run proposes to Florent Maudoux, Guillaume Singelin and Mathieu Bablet to join him in a collective leadership; which they accept. « For thirteen years, I was the only captain of the 619 ship. I chose the projects, I supported them and I centralized everything. Yuck was present from the beginning for the entire graphic identity of the Label, Doro, then Tony [aka Chick] for the layouts. » The company La MotherBase is then created in order to be able to editorially manage the collection. In 2021, the Label 619 joins Rue de Sèvres while retaining its independence. By joining such a structure, Run's intention is to bring the label the power of the publisher's network, its notoriety, but also its ability and expertise to promote the works to the general public. Especially since at the time of the announcement of this alliance, the collective authorship leadership did not hide that the publisher was the only one to have spoken to them about artistic creation, while others had started discussions on purely commercial topics. For the new partners, the bet is a clear success. While many comics struggle to reach the 10,000 sales figure, synonymous with relative success in the prevailing slump, the initial print run of Mathieu Bablet's Silent Jenny is 150,000 albums (with more than 100,000 already sold in April 2026), while the successful series Shin Zero, by Mathieu Bablet and Guillaume Singelin, achieves more than 35,000 sales only a month after its release on an initial print run of 50,000 copies. Frontier, the most awarded comic of the Label 619, sells more than 70,000 albums. In 2022, Run publishes MFK2, the sequel to the Mutafukaz series (series sold more than 150,000 albums by the end of the 2010 decade). Sales figures, which are a source of pride for Run and the authors of the Label 619, are not an obsession: « To be completely honest, I would be unable to give you these figures [previously mentioned]. Today, it is Rue de Sèvres, our publishing partner for six years, that manages all of this part. And, to be honest, I am not very interested in sales, in the sense that figures often end up drawing trends, and I do not want them to unconsciously influence our editorial choices. I know that some titles, such as Frontier, Silent Jenny or Shin Zero, have been very successful, and that is a real pride. But I consider it a real luxury to be able to continue creating without constantly having our eyes on the sales charts. I hope that we can preserve this freedom for as long as possible. »