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Monday 29 October 2007

Asterix e-cards for Halloween

The official asterix.com website

The champions of fear are back with three Asterix e-cards in time for Halloween.
It’s now something of a tradition: every year as the last days of October approach, Asterix e-cards dress in Halloween costume using three designs to prove that this Celtic festival was, in fact, invented by the indomitable Gauls to strike fear into the terrible Vikings.
So then, for an authentic Halloween that promises both fear and laughter, there’s only one address: Asterix Special Halloween cards.
Those poor Viking warriors, and those poor pirates forever quaking in their boots… In the Asterix universe, it’s the “baddies” who are stiff with fear, whilst the Gauls just keep on laughing!
Obi

Wednesday 24 October 2007

Asterix September Quiz winners!

Games and contests

5 lucky indomitable Gauls have dodged the back-to-school blues this year, having brilliantly laid their hands on Asterix diaries and schoolbags!
The lucky winners of the Asterix September Quiz are: Delphine Goddet, Françoise Brun, Romain Doncarli, Michael Bodar, and Gregory Leveque. They can now show off in the playground with their Asterix wheeled schoolbags and their diaries illustrated with fearsome Vikings!
Well done indeed to them for having found all 5 correct answers to our monthly Asterix Quiz: Oftalmologix – Keskonrix – par correspondance – Astérix – Berlix. And some good news for the other competitors: copies of the “Les 7 Aventures d'Astérix" (the 7 Adventures of Asterix) board game are to be won in our October Asterix Quiz. Good luck to you all!
See also:
Discover the complete set of Asterix school items
Obi

Monday 22 October 2007

Asterix and Friends exhibition in Portugal

Press review

31 of the original plates from the Astérix et ses amis (Asterix and Friends – A Tribute to Albert Uderzo) are currently being exhibited at the Amadora International Comics Festival, being held in Amadora, on the outskirts of Lisbon.
It’s a great chance to discover the original sketches from some of the most well-known authors in the Comics world. Zep, Boucq, Manara, Cauvin, Achdé and Gerra, Rosinski and Van Hamme, Jidéhem, Batem, Vance and Van Hamme… They’re all here, paying homage to our favourite hero!

These plates have already been exhibited in Barcelona and Paris in April to celebrate Albert Uderzo’s 80th birthday, as well as in Finland where they marked the launch of Asterix and Friends in Finnish, and are now continuing their international tour.
The 18th Amadora International Comics Festival, the largest Comics festival in Portugal, is duly offering its tens of thousands of visitors the chance to witness what will become legendary encounters between Titeuf and Asterix, or between Gaston in withdrawal from magic potion and our own little Gaul in a winged helmet!
See also:
Discover a selection of the best drawings from Asterix and Friends
Every edition of Asterix and Friends in the Asterix Translation Exchange
Asterix in Portuguese: 5 new translations
Obi

Friday 19 October 2007

An interview of Albert Uderzo on BBC website

Press review

The co-creator of Asterix tells the secrets of Asterix on Briton BBC website.
Our Gaul rugby team may have been defeated by the Briton team, Anticlimax’s fellows demonstrate their passion for famous French flair by giving Albert Uderzo, co-creator of the world’s most famous Gaul, a chance to appear as a special guest star on Briton BBC website!
And what a pleasure! Albert Uderzo speaks about his beginnings as a drawer: “My father was panicked, he had this image of painters being people in the 19th Century with tuberculosis. He didn't want me to be an artist.” He then tells us a lot about his relationship with friend and colleague René Goscinny, and why it’s so important for him that both names appear on all Asterix books: "I find it completely normal to have both names on the album, I would be ashamed to only put mine on, even if it was only me who wrote them. Goscinny will intrinsically be a part of them as long as Asterix lives."
Definitely faithful to his past, Albert Uderzo still is working on Asterix’s future: while answering BBC questions, he manages to find the time to approve the colour of the podium on an Asterix plastic figure and to take a telephone call from Gerard Depardieu, the actor playing Obelix in the forthcoming film Asterix at the Olympic Games.
Finally, Mario Cacciottolo, the author of the article, has a very nice idea: “Asterix got his name because he is the “star” of the comics”. Not quite, says Albert: “Goscinny just wanted to make sure that our work would appear first in an encyclopaedia of comics.
But here, in the Virtual Village, we must admit that we really like this idea. And after all, isn’t that just normal that the star of the comics appear first in encyclopaedia? We just take it as one more proof that René and Albert really were ahead of their time, by Toutatis!
See also:
Read the article on BBC website
Obi

Thursday 18 October 2007

A new Asterix Grand Collection book in German

Edition - The official asterix.com website - The Grand Collection - The Translation Exchange

What a beautiful autumn for Asterix German speaking fans! A few days after Astérix et ses amis (Asterix and friends), here comes the Grand Collection edition of Asterix the Gladiator!

Our Indomitable Gauls surely know how to celebrate, but they seem to have finally found their master: Albert Uderzo himself, whose birthday party seems to be lasting all year!

The incredible banquet that took place in Lutetia in April 2007 A.D., celebrating his 80th birthday, is now engraved on our hearts. But the party still goes on in the world of Asterix editions.

A few days after the German release of Astérix et ses amis in German, we now have the pleasure to let you discover the cover of the Grand Collection German edition of Asterix the Gladiator.

See also:
Albert Uderzo’s 80th birthday special
All editions of Asterix in German in the Asterix Translation Exchange
Astérix et ses amis in French
Astérix et ses amis in German
Astérix et ses amis in Spanish
Asterix the Gladiator album page
Obi

Monday 15 October 2007

A legion of images from the Asterix at the Olympic Games video game!

Video games

With only a few weeks to go before the release of the new Asterix at the Olympic Games video game, our image gallery now boasts a selection of screenshots for you to peruse.
Produced by the same fine team from Atari and Studio Etranges Libellules that oversaw the previous masterpieces Asterix and Obelix XXL 1 and 2, the new Asterix at the Olympic Games video game will be available from November for PS2, Wii, NDS and PC platforms.
So whilst you’re waiting, why not warm up for the challenges ahead since they promise to be highly demanding? And what better training could there be than to discover our screenshot galleries for the Wii and the NDS?
See also:
Asterix video games
The Asterix video games museum
The new Asterix at the Olympic Games video game is revealed
Obi

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