Posted on 03/24/2020 2:46:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Albert Uderzo, co-creator and illustrator of the "Asterix" comic book series, has died at the age of 92, a spokesman for his publisher Editions Albert Rene said.
The hugely popular comic, read worldwide, follows the adventures of Gaulish warriors and their antics against Roman adversaries. They were published for the first time in francophone Pilote magazine in 1959.
Uderzo, who was born in France in April 1927, produced the cartoons alongside author René Goscinny, until Goscinny's death in 1977.
The cartoons, which feature blond moustachioed Asterix and his friend Obelix, have been translated into more than 100 languages and dialects.
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RIP.
Asterix’s Roman adversary was Crismus Bonus.
I loved Asterix and Obelix as a kid.
Watch a few video trailers of his books:
Enjoy!
Never even heard of him or the comic strip.
I think they are big in India too.
Yeah, when I visited my relatives in Canada my cousin had the comic books and we watched the cartoons.
Quebec?
LOL!
I read those when I was a kid. The historical content probably makes them unsuitable for easy comprehension by today’s government school products. :)
No, it was Windsor Not, “Canada’s sunporch, Detroits back porch”.
I had to laugh, when I was growing up it was a sleepy little place, the town shut down at midnight on Saturdays ( they would sing God Save the Queen at weddings and home you went), and Sundays everything was closed.
Last time I was there it was full of strip bars and casino’s. The change was unbelievable
I took 4 years of Latin and 2 of French, so these comics really meant a lot to me and the others who took the same foreign language classes as I did.
they were VERY well known to some Americans of a certain age. I loved them and read them in the original French!
They were super-strong Druids always out-witting and out-fighting the Romans (I am pretty sure it was the Romans).
Quite hilarious on both high- and low-brow levels.
I never could get into it. My French teacher had a collection of them, and it was like Tin Tin, and the Smurf comics to me. Just something a bit “off” where the humor didnt land.
So did I!!
I got a few series from Germany for my code-free DVD player.
We had one Asterix book and the entire Tintin collection growing up. My kids have all the Tintin books now, including some of the more obscure editions, like “Tintin in the Congo” and “Tintin and Alph-Art,” as well as “Tintin in the land of the Soviets” (which would make Bernie-bots angry at how communist Russia was portrayed).
I never really got into the Asterix thing that much.
ha! * snicker *
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