![]() Like its contemporary Tintin, it has led a lucrative and long commercial life. The jokes are all a little bit too adult to understand and rich with the promise of unknown, grown-up information.Īsterix is one of the great postwar Franco-Belgian comics (or bandes dessinées in French, meaning “drawn strips”). But that’s precisely the appeal of the Asterix comics to the children who have loved it since its first publication in 1959. “I hate too much pearl in my vinegar.” I loved this page of Asterix and Cleopatra as a kid, even though I didn’t really get the joke (it’s a riff on an old story in which Cleopatra drank her own earrings at dinner). ![]() ![]() ![]() From inside his comic strip rectangle, one of Cleopatra’s lackeys makes a face as he tastes her snack for poison. ![]()
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