New adventures take comic figures Asterix and Obelix to cold Sarmatia. In an interview, author Jean-Yves Ferri reveals why everything is different this time around. Freezing cold, a fearsome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Guillaume Canet, one of France’s most successful actors and filmmakers, is set to star in and ...

It was in 1959 that Astérix and the rest of the village of unyielding Gauls, who resisted Roman occupation thanks to a magic potion, first appeared in the French magazine Pilote. Since then, Astérix, ...

For Dominique Bazay, Netflix's director of original animation, the news of the classic novel series coming to life on the small screen is one that works for both the streamer and for lifelong fans who ...

Asterix fever is hitting the French capital this week. As the doughty little Gaul and his man-mountain of a friend Obelix mark their 50th birthday, the whole of Paris seems to be celebrating with them ...

Albert Uderzo, the French comic book artist and scriptwriter best known for his work on 'Astérix,' has died at the age of 92. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor Albert Uderzo, the French comic ...

Didier Conrad told me that "it came about because our publisher's a big fan, and as it happened, we love him too, so it came naturally, but he doesn't really have much to do with Portugal or Lusitania ...

Alain Chabat, director of the 2002 live-action film 'Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra,' will direct the limited series based on the iconic comic books. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

It’s been 50 years since the small but cunning warrior Asterix and his podgy stonemason pal Obelix began battling the armies of Julius Caesar in their remote village on the Brittany coast — the only ...

A little-reported ceremony took place a few days ago outside a nondescript apartment block in the Paris suburb of Bobigny. An old man unveiled a plaque to mark the birthplace of one of France's ...

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