Oh, the revolution that followed… After 60 years, the little Gaul Asterix is an ongoing mighty hit in most countries and languages and thus has proven himself to cross borders very successfully.Official Sites Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
Asterix became a beacon showing comics could be so much more than people had believed. Goscinny once described the evolution of Asterix’s appeal in a telling way: at signings, first it was the kids claiming autographs, then it became parents asking for their children, then the adults asking for themselves. As I got older, I started to appreciate the less-obvious humor: the satire of our ways the cameo appearances of famous people, beautifully caricatured by Uderzo the spoof of the ways of different countries Asterix and Obelix would visit. Terry Nantier, publisher of Papercutz, on why he’s thrilled to publish Asterix in the United States: “I grew up reading Asterix, among many other great European comics, and it grew with me.
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