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The Asterix In Britain/On Her Majesty's Service film (Let's call it Asterix 4 going on) has released it's first trailer. Yes, it's in French, obviously, what were you expecting? It adapts the original comic, loosely of course Do look for London Market, fish and chip shops, a pub called the Crazy Cow (spongiformly hilarious), a barbers… and[...]

This summer, London will host the Olympics and the Paralympics. And I will do my best to hide from it. Thankfully most of it will be happening in the East

These Gauls are crazy. Created by French office workers in their lunch break...

Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo is being targeted by the French tax officials for being an "illustrator" not an "author" and thus not eligible to tax breaks he's been claiming. If successful, this could have serious implications for many comic creators in France. He's been asked to pay €203,000 euros in unpaid tax revenue from on 24 Asteric[...]