Asterix set out to conquer the world with their 36th album – 180

Asterix set out to conquer the world with their 36th album

Asterix the Gaul rebel broke again to conquer the world on Thursday with the global release of “The Papyrus Caesar,” the 36th album of the famous cartoon.

From Paris to Barcelona, ​​Berlin to Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro, the new Asterix is ​​available in bookstores world.

 
 

In the French capital, a central library of the boulevard Saint-Germain, remained open past midnight Wednesday to allow fans to get a copy autographed by the authors.

 
 

As in the previous volume, “Asterix and the Picts” published two years ago, Jean-Yves Ferri wrote the script and Didier Conrad took over from Uderzo in the drawings.

 
 

Jean-Yves Ferri told AFP that the overall publication had placed “at the center of a whirlwind.”

 
 

Two years after his travels in Scotland, Asterix and his friend Obelix they return with these adventures with Doblepolémix, inspired by the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, and his efforts to counter a propaganda war launched by the Roman occupier.

 
 

Doblepolémix is ​​a journalist for the “Echo of Condate” newspaper. The authors revealed that were tempted to call it “Wikilix” referring to the famous website for revealing state secrets.

 
 

The completion of the new album took one year and a half to the authors, who in the future want to return to confront the mustachioed Gallic other problems of today, such as globalization and energy issues.

 
 
 
 

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The album begins with the public reading the newspaper in the small village, but the only thing that interests the Gauls is the horoscope.

 
 

Redwifix is ​​one of the new characters, the only Frenchman to read with interest the news of the empire.

 
 

The first picture book shows the postman delivering Filatelix “Echo of Condate” to Redwifix, which begins to read it.

 
 

“Rome: Caesar’s publication of the book” reads

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“Caesar writes? Well, I thought that was military,” he replies impishly Obelix.

 
 

The plot revolves around the attempt of Caesar to conquer the small rebel village resorting to propaganda, after decades of humiliating defeats.

 
 

For a more ambitious album than the previous issue, “Ferri said, insisting on the complexity of the plot, which makes it a comic book designed primarily for an adult audience, but does not contain sex.

 
 

The emperor is helped by an evil counselor called Bonus Promoplús, whose traits are strangely similar to those of the influential French publicist Jacques Seguela.

 
 

Among other new characters is a dapper butler Egyptian and a rather lazy centurion. The world of social networking is not absent and birds do “twiit!” in the woods.

 
 

Four million copies of the new adventure of the world’s most widely read comics were distributed on Thursday, of which two million French and the rest in 20 languages ​​and dialects, including Spanish and Portuguese.

 
 

Since the creation of the rebellious Gallic 56 years ago by René Goscinny died in 1977 and Albert Uderzo, who is now 88, has sold a total of 365 million cartoon albums.

 
 

AFP