Asterix, Obelix and his next adventure, “the papyrus of Caesar” – El Sol de Cuautla

EFE

Rome – Asterix and Obelix, the Gauls comic book heroes, will continue facing down the Romans persevering in “The papyrus Caesar”, the new album from this famous saga that will be released worldwide next October 22.

This was announced today the authors of the collection, screenwriter Jean-Yves Ferri and artist Didier Conrad, during a press conference held under the International Exhibition Bologna Children’s Book (northern Italy).

This is the thirty-sixth title of the collection, which apparently rejoined the Egyptian and Roman world, but still no details of its contents are known.

The couple of artists responsible for this new release are the same as two years ago unearthed “Asterix and the Picts” (2013), which managed to sell about five million copies worldwide.

This new history has been developed under the close supervision of Albert Uderzo, creator of the series with the late René Goscinny, and has given his “blessing”, as secured their editors in a statement.

So, the Gauls battlers will continue to protect its unique village and fighting back to Roman invaders and his hilarious Caesar in a story that remains shrouded in mystery.

It is known that “there will be battles “and new characters, including” a very bad and misleading. “

The editors have also admitted that” there potion (magic) and Roman guards shake “and that the story” will be complex and exciting on a characteristic of our modern society issue. “

The character Asterix appeared in 1959 in the magazine Pilote, but the first album, entitled” Asterix the Gaul “was published two years later with a circulation of 6,000 copies.

Since then, Asterix, Obelix and the galaxy of characters who populate the village have become a phenomenon for several generations and have been the subject of numerous studies.

The series has been translated into over 111 languages ​​and dialects and has sold 335 million copies worldwide.

This success translates as illustrated in web comics, where the numbers sold to date stacked equivalent to the height of 767 Eiffel towers, would twice round the world and its weight would range around the 12,900 tons.

Uderzo left the drawing and 2010, after 68 years dedicated to comics, and the last volume created by him, “Asterix and Obelix, the golden book” was published in 2009.

The story of Asterix has also been moved to the big screen, both animated films – “Les douze travaux de’Astérix” – as with others featuring actors such as “Asterix & amp; Obelix. Mission Cleopatra “, with the participation of Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu

Interestingly both Ferri as Conrad born in 1959, the same year that the first bullet of the Gauls Heroes published.

Ferri, born in Algeria, took his first steps in the world of comics at age eleven and career Aimé Lacapelle character, a gentle farmer fifties who ends up becoming a police officer stands .

Conrad, Marseille (south of France) and Swiss parents, entered the world of drawing at fourteen, to participate in “Carte blanche” published in Spirou magazine.

Both were selected to continue publishing the stories of irreducible Gallic village after a confidential process orchestrated by Uderzo and Anne Goscinny’s daughter, who died in 1977. EFE