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And now, after the passing of Goscinny and the loosing of the reins by Uderzo, it's time to met Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, the new creators of Asterix comics With English subtitles. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BaYhLiaHO4[/youtube] It is one of the best selling comic books in the world It possibly has a higher average sales per volume than[...]

Albert Uderzo, who has recent stepped down from the comic series he co-created, Asterix, is about to find his earliest work revisited. Philippe Cauvin and Alain Duchene are currently restoring his work, from the original boards, running from 1941 until 1951, supervised by Uderzo. The first column, published in October, will include his childhood drawings as well[...]

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[...]