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 ...

Last year's Asterix comic book, The Chieftain's Daughter, was the best-selling comic book in the world. And while Asterix fans settled down for the good long wait until the next, it appears they won't ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From inside his comic strip rectangle, one of Cleopatra’s lackeys makes a face as he tastes her snack for poison. “Yuck,” he thinks. “I hate too much pearl in my vinegar.” I loved this page of Asterix ...

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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The year is 50BC and Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely. One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds ...

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 ...

Astérix and his red-haired best friend Obélix make a return in this brand new adventure and the last story that Albert Uderzo was able to supervise. The wait is over for Astérix fans, as the Gaulish ...

The co-creator of the famous Asterix cartoons, Albert Uderzo, has ended a seven-year legal battle with his daughter amicably, French media report. The rift began in 2007 when Sylvie Uderzo and her ...