Brussels (AFP) – An original cover painting from the 1963 comic book "Asterix and Cleopatra" was to go under the hammer on Sunday despite a legal challenge from the artist's daughter. The famous ...

Today marks the anniversary of one the most beloved European comics characters of all time, the great Asterix The Gaul, who made his first appearance on this day in 1959, created by René Goscinny and ...

A barrel of magic potion must cross the English Channel to help a village resist the Romans. Asterix in Britain airs on Gulli ...

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 ...

Albert Uderzo, the French illustrator who launched the Asterix comics in 1959 with author René Goscinny, with his characters Asterix, left, and ObelixStephane de Sakutin / AFP / Getty It’s been 50 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was in 1959 that Astérix and the rest of the village of unyielding Gauls, who resisted Roman occupation thanks to a magic ...

When people in the United States talk about great fantasy heroes, it’s all Conan, Bilbo, and Harry Potter. Nobody ever talks about the little French dude with the wings on his head. Asterix the Gaul ...

Illustrator who with the writer René Goscinny created the much-loved comic books featuring the exploits of Asterix the Gaul On the balcony of a flat in Bobigny, near Paris, one afternoon in 1959, two ...

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 ...