Getting solemn scene, distilled information in dribs and drabs … What’s most iconic heroes he rest of the French popular culture? Editions Albert René, who watch with scruples and extreme control over the destiny of the character Asterix, gold mine of the global edition (365 million albums sold since its inception nearly 5 million in the last Asterix and the Picts ), had warned journalists wishing to attend the presentation of the new album of the series, to be published on October 22, entitled The Papyrus Caesar appointment you were given exactly 30 at 9 am at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, another symbol of the cultural influence of France in the world. Latecomers would be punished via the same access as tourists, already present en masse at this early hour.
The rebellious spirit of Asterix
Faced with such a risk, the representatives of the press, including many foreigners from Spain and Germany, the other two countries of adoption of Asterix, so were waiting quietly, numbed by the cold, before passing under the gauntlet to access the lounge Gustave Eiffel. While waiting, some of them laughing yellow receiving ads for a national radio distilling the names of new characters in the Papyrus Caesar , waiting THE great revelation of this rout: the cover the 36th album of the adventures of Asterix – very successful cover, admittedly. For a few, it was like a high mass of Lucasfilm orchestrated by the Disney Group, with questions and answers carefully prepared, and stakeholders frozen smile, if the spirit of Asterix, willingly irreverent and rebellious, had remembered only the good memories of the meeting
This was first Albert Uderzo, graphic genius of 88 years still green, jammed a little fine mechanics impeccably establishment. a pike against his former publisher Dargaud by one, untimely speaking and there, both evoke the memory of the friend to greet René Goscinny that, frankly, the work done by Ferri (scenario) and Conrad (at drawing). The interventions of the latter, he had to understand between the lines, also said much about the back kitchens of this recovery: thus it was learned from the mouth of Ferri that both authors had got to know during the promotion … (!) of Asterix and the Picts , where Albert Uderzo had maliciously insisted earlier on friendship worthy of Montaigne and La Boétie between him and René Goscinny, who had greatly contributed to the miraculous success of Asterix. Conrad also slipped that the Royal gift that he had been at the time had just revealed poisoned. One way to remember that it was not the first choice to replace Uderzo, and he had to meet almost superhuman deliver on time limits for the boards of Asterix and the Picts .
Patience until October 22
Of course, we imagine that it is more to be pitied than Ferri and Conrad, at least from a strictly financial point of view (there was a time when Albert Uderzo, it seems, was the first taxpayer France). But they thought they saw taking shape on the face of Ferri, which readers of Point know well, a vague melancholy moment when the interviewer told him that his own characters were now orphans. Fans of the great De Gaulle at the beach therefore likely to wait a long time following the adventures of the General, who nevertheless thought his only international rival was Tintin, not the mustachioed Gaul. And this new album, the reader will wonder? Well, it will wait until October 22, and this is the real common point Asterix and Star Wars : no journalist should be allowed to read The Papyrus Caesar before its official release. Will there be then form before the bookstores, at dawn, amateur files disguised as Gauls, like the Yoda or Darth Vader that are sure to come together before the December 16 movie theaters? The journalist, returned home this morning with a serious cold, will risk it not, to him, before the afternoon.
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