![]() ![]() Children come to reading in a lot of different ways, with comics and graphic novels being hugely important for a lot of kids. Creating a huge cast of individually recognisable characters, and the minute detail of all those group battles and the action scenes is an achievement in itself, but his real skill was combining fast-paced adventure with such humour and warmth. Waterstones children’s laureate Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon books, said: “I loved Asterix as a child, and his style was absolutely iconic. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium.” Well, not entirely … One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesĮach comic starts in the same way, before Asterix and his friends go on increasingly farflung adventures – in Asterix in Britain, he introduces tea to the ancient Britons in Asterix and Cleopatra, Obelix knocks off the Sphinx’s nose.
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