Post by Alrik on Nov 9, 2009 14:25:58 GMT
Hello, everyone,
some of you might already know it, others don't, but the comic protagonists Asterix and Obelic, created by Uderzo and Goscinny (both French, Goscinny died in the late 70s) have become 50 now !
You can learn more about them here : www.asterix.com/index.html.en
They are very, very, very much well known here in Germany and in France.
And probably Belgium and in the whole of western Europe, too.
EVERYONE knows them - at least that they are "the people from the stubborn village hinderin the Romans of conquering all of France".
This is a comic tradition that is so much different from the american one. Often I find myself not being able to understand "typical american" comics, but rather european ones much better.
Asterix & Obelix began their lives as a kind of satire. They depict more-than-cliché-like French Gaullists, which live in the times of the Romans, and they react very much stubborn against any tries of the imvaders (the Romans, of course ) to conquer their land.
Their comic albums act as satires depicting all kinds of French and European folks according to their clichés.
If you want to start reading these comics, I personally suggest that you start with "humble beginnings", and that is the very first comic of them. From then on, everything develops, drawing-wise, story-wise etc. .
Look through the link above for more.
Alrix
some of you might already know it, others don't, but the comic protagonists Asterix and Obelic, created by Uderzo and Goscinny (both French, Goscinny died in the late 70s) have become 50 now !
You can learn more about them here : www.asterix.com/index.html.en
They are very, very, very much well known here in Germany and in France.
And probably Belgium and in the whole of western Europe, too. EVERYONE knows them - at least that they are "the people from the stubborn village hinderin the Romans of conquering all of France".
This is a comic tradition that is so much different from the american one. Often I find myself not being able to understand "typical american" comics, but rather european ones much better.
Asterix & Obelix began their lives as a kind of satire. They depict more-than-cliché-like French Gaullists, which live in the times of the Romans, and they react very much stubborn against any tries of the imvaders (the Romans, of course
) to conquer their land. Their comic albums act as satires depicting all kinds of French and European folks according to their clichés.
If you want to start reading these comics, I personally suggest that you start with "humble beginnings", and that is the very first comic of them. From then on, everything develops, drawing-wise, story-wise etc. .
Look through the link above for more.
Alrix
