WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the inspiration for a character in the latest volume of the Asterix comic series.
The political activist is a model for Polemix, a journalist who wants to educate the villagers about the events in the Roman Empire, betrayed Jean-Yves Ferri, author of the recent Asterix band “The Papyrus of Caesar”, on Monday at a press conference in Paris. Most of the band, the Ferri brings out jointly with signatories Didier Conrad appear on 22 October.
It is already the 36th adventures of Asterix and Obelix and his faithful friend, the second, which arose out of direct employees of the Asterix creator René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Goscinny died in 1977, Uderzo then brought several more volumes on their own out.
Since the published two years ago band “Asterix and the Picts” is Uderzo the creators only in an advisory capacity. The 88-year-old Asterix creator said he pull his hat to the work of his successors. “The success of the first issue has all relaxed,” says signatory Conrad
A type Spin Doctor antiquity therefore
The preliminary edition amounts to four million -. 20 different languages and dialects. The According to the publisher with a total of around 365 million copies best-selling comic book series in the world strives going to stay thematically in its 56th year on the amount of time.
Apart from the style similar to Julian Assange figure it should therefore also be about information as a weapon in wartime. Inspired by the magazine “The Gallic War”, consisting of Caesar’s vision describes its military campaigns in Gaul, the booklet provides a kind of spin doctor of antiquity: The figure syndic (in the original French: Bonus Promo Plus) holds as a communications adviser to the Roman ruler the strings Hand
The villagers interested in the newspaper of investigative journalist Polemix but something quite different:. read the “Gallic Revue” mainly because of the horoscope, the species has a Zodiac
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