Thursday 31 January 2008
Who will find the Asterix figurine?
Collectors
The 2008 Asterix Epiphany figurine collection based on the Asterix at the Olympic Games film.
Asterix brings a royal tone to the galette des rois Epiphany cake! Who will get dear old Julius’ laurels this year? Quite simply, the lucky foodie who is fortunate enough to find one of the 12 figurines from the magnificent new Asterix figurine collection in his slice of the cake.
New characters such as Irina, Doctorjekyllus, Covadinpus from the
Asterix at the Olympic Games film are involved, not forgetting of course the classic heroes from the comic book.
See also:
The special Asterix at the Olympic Games film website
The Asterix figurine collections
Discover all the new characters from the Asterix at the Olympic Games film
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Tuesday 29 January 2008
Roll out the red carpet for Asterix at the Olympic Games!
Cinema
- The official asterix.com website
Imposing Roman statues along the façade, a red carpet, and solemn Roman guards armed with menacing pilum javelins… What
could be going on then on this Sunday, 13 January 2008 A.D. on the Champs Elysées? The pavements of "the most beautiful avenue in the world",
normally noticeably grand, suddenly seem terribly narrow as they welcome an enthusiastic crowd, whilst amateur photographers scramble over one
another in order to take the best snap of this incredible "Caesar's palace"…
For those who are not already in the know, your ignorance can no longer be tolerated! Asterix at the Olympic
Games is the film event of the year! And to mark his return to the cinema, scheduled on screens across the world on 30 January 2008, Asterix
decided to do things up grand. The worldwide première thus took place on Sunday, 13 January in a Lutetian cinema entirely decorated with
references to the universe created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.
Let us begin with a procession of stars that would have lit up the Mount Olympus: Clovis Cornillac (Asterix), Benoît
Poelvoorde (Brutus), José Garcia (Covadinpus), Stéphane Rousseau (Lovesix), Vanessa Hessler (Irina), Adriana Karembeu (Mrs Geriatrix),
Alexandre Astier (Tenacius)… And of course, Julius Caesar himself, played for the first time on-screen by Alain Delon, in imperial form like never
before. They all paraded before an explosion of flash bulbs, before giving exclusive interviews to the cameras of Ave TV, the Empire's television
channel. Albert Uderzo, without whom none of this would have taken place, could be proud that evening of his little Gauls, invented nearly 50
years ago during a famous "brainstorming" session with his good friend René Goscinny. That this celebrated
"tête-à-tête" should result in the creation of a comic book and cinematic legend is surely thanks to divine guidance from
Toutatis himself!
And as the Champs Elysées shall never be large enough to welcome everyone from the Asterix fans community, Asterix.com
is pleased to offer absolutely everyone a virtual sneak preview a few days before the film is released, thanks to our special Asterix at the Olympic Games website: the trailer, video
teasers, the book of the film, photos, posters, video games, characters, special reports, competitions… All the best from Olympia!
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Tuesday 29 January 2008
Albert Uderzo tells all!
Press review
- Collectors - Edition
"I'm the only tree left standing in the forest!" said Albert Uderzo recently to José-Louis Bocquet, a journalist
from the French weekly Figaro Magazine. The forest he mentioned is an allusion to what is nothing less than the golden age of the modern comic
strip when, during the 1950s and 60s, Albert Uderzo and his friends René Goscinny, Jean-Michel Charlier, Jean Hébrard and
François Clauteaux created the Pilote magazine, whose pages featured a little moustachioed Gaul who was to soon change the course of
comic book history…
 For the very first time, Albert Uderzo speaks openly in an autobiography, Albert Uderzo se raconte, which was published by Stock in Gaul on 16
January. This book gives you the chance to get to know Albert Uderzo as only his close friends do: in authentic fashion, Asterix's co-creator tells
his own story, blending affection and humour, revealing a life that is exceptional on every level. While recounting many irresistibly funny
anecdotes, he shares moments of an exciting life, full of his many passions: music (his first accordion which suffered the same fate as Cacofonix's
lyre!), motor sports and flying, which all played a major role… Not forgetting, of course, drawing, a discipline in which "Bébert"
distinguished himself from an early age with exceptional talent, and which enabled him to create so many characters who have gone on to become
legends today.
For Asterix fans, the book is also a first-hand account of the beginnings of Pilote and the most famous of all Gauls,
as well as of the lean times which preceded the successful years with his bosom pal René Goscinny: years which will be remembered above all for their astonishing creativity that still has millions of readers worldwide laughing!
All proceeds from Albert Uderzo se raconte will be donated to the ICM (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière) charity.
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Tuesday 29 January 2008
“Bollywood” version of Trivial Pursuit™ with Asterix!
Collectors
Here is the one that Asterix board game fans have been dreaming about:
Asterix and the Magic Carpet Trivial Pursuit™!
The magnificent game board sports colours would not look out of place in a Bollywood musical; the traditional plastic wedges have been replaced by the towers of the beautiful Princess Orinjade’s palace; and the questions will of course test your knowledge of the
Asterix and the Magic Carpet album: Asterix Trivial Pursuit™ is already a “must have” for all serious Gaulish collectors!
And it’s another marvellous item to add to your
Asterix board game collection, to join “cult” classics such as
Asterix and the Banquet Monopoly™ and
Asterix and the Normans Cluedo™!
See also:
Asterix board game collection
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Thursday 24 January 2008
Asterix Quiz December session: and the winners are…
Games and contests
- The official asterix.com website - The Grand Collection
By Toutatis, it’s well-earned! Five lucky Indomitable Gauls have brilliantly answered our Asterix Quiz questions and have won two new books from the original French Asterix
Grand Collection.
Their names? Céline JOLY, Valérie CHANE-MENG-HIME, Serge PAULIN, Jean-Claude MAQUER and Jean-François CANESTRO. They will have the chance to receive
Asterix and the Banquet and
Asterix and Cleopatra in their original French Asterix
Grand Collection editions.
And there is still a few more days left to try your luck in our
new Asterix Quiz in order to win
Asterix at the Olympic Games video games. These Asterix competitions really are something not to be missed, aren’t they?
Voir aussi :
Our special Asterix at the Olympics Games website
The Asterix Grand Collection
Discover Asterix at the Olympic Games video games
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Friday 11 January 2008
Asterix more multilingual than ever before
The Translation Exchange
- Edition - Homage
Joyful news for collectors: two new Asterix albums in Spanish and Polish are on show on Doubleclix’s blog.
It’s become routine to provide the greatest pleasure to our fans: Asterix publications are growing in number throughout the world. Among the most recent releases is the Polish edition of
Astérix et ses amis (Asterix and friends) , the album in which the biggest names in the comic book world paid tribute to Albert Uderzo, each of them offering plates revealing their vision of Asterix.
In Spain, a new volume offers three Asterix adventures (
Asterix The Gaul,
Asterix and the Cauldron and
Obelix and Co.) and pays tribute to the co-creator of Asterix, René Goscinny, to mark the 30th anniversary of his passing.
See also:
Discover all the Asterix albums in the Translation Exchange
Tribute to René Goscinny – 14 August 1926 / 5 November 1977
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