The cunning Asterix and his jovial friend Obelix was introduced to the world by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo on Oct 29, 1959 in the French comic strip magazine Pilote.Two years later, the first hardback volume of their adventures was published, with an initial print run of 6,000 copies and since then, a total of 325 million copies of 33 Asterix books in 107 languages, have been sold around the world, making the co-creators France’s bestselling authors abroad.
Goscinny, who wrote the texts, died suddenly in 1977 and Uderzo, who did the drawings, continued the series alone.
I’m a big fan of Asterix. I have a collection of their comics and I’ve read some of their stories many times, laughing every time. I particulary like how the characters are named, like Unhygenix the fishmonger, Getafix (get-a-fix, geddit?) the druid and some of the Roman names are hilarious. Sadly, it’s quite difficult to find the comics in KL bookstores nowadays, (maybe Kinokuniya has them) and the price is quite prohibitive.
http://www.asterix.com
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