No.1073410
>Albert Uderzo, the famed French comic book artist, has died at the age of 92.
>French wire AFP reported that Uderzo had a heart attack and his death was not coronavirus related.
>The illustrator created the Asterix comic book series with René Goscinny after they met in 1951.
http://archive.md/vgUwT
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No.1073414
>>1073410
Rest in peace. Got any storytimes to share? Burgerland is unfortunately unfamiliar with the series; not even the CGI films are popular there.
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No.1073416
Well that fucking sucks, I greatly admired the guy and remember reading his comics as far back as Second grade. To me he was a prime example of classic Belgian-French comics.
Here's some (somewhat gaudy) fanart I made of his work.
RIP
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No.1073423
burger here
I haven't read much of his work, but what Asterix I have read was a delight
F
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No.1073424
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No.1073454
>>1073423
I've re-read all Asterix comics recently and to be honest, I find some of them really mean spirited and characters behave like assholes. Maybe Uderzo had a bad day when he made those. For example, while many cultures are shown as funny parodies, even the Germans, everyone in Corsica is a murderous asshole.
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No.1073456
>>1073454
Corsica is part of France, though, people always reserve real hatred for other people in their own country. It's like bantz in the UK between north and south England, the west country, Wales and Northern Ireland, all in good fun. Except for when it's about the Scots, we actually mean it about them.
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No.1073457
>>1073456
I realized that too while researching where it is. But still, it felt strangely angry. There are other parts I didn't like, e.g. when Asterix had to get Caesar's crown because of a bet made in a drunken rage. Everyone is constantly angry in that comic.
What's also interesting, one of the comics is about feminism, The conflict gets solved by getting the women to buy fancy clothes from Paris, so they forget their rebellion. And people lose their shit about movies and comics nowadays lol
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No.1073459
>>1073454
I think this is part of french comics in general, you find characters being jerks very often. Maybe french people like to be jerks in general or maybe feel it is more interesting if their characters in fiction have more boldness? I can't tell, I've never been in France.
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No.1073460
>>1073459
No, it's rather that in some comics, everyone seems to be out of character.
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No.1073463
>>1073460
>No, it's rather that in some comics, everyone seems to be out of character.
Tends to happen regularly with comedy comics in my experience.
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No.1073464
I enjoyed Asterix stories when I was a child until something hit me recently. They are stories about french terrorists going against the only beacon of civilization on the old world and was made by two belgians, which are the worst mixture of the french and the germans.
Still, f.
>>1073416
The fuck is Mortadelo doing there?
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No.1073465
>>1073464
I thought it was about a resistance of galos who were constantly being pestered by the Romans to adapt but kept on getting thwarted by this magic dude who give them superstrength.
And I put him there because they both have big noses and are European comic characters.
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No.1073484
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No.1073485
>>1073465
>I thought it was about a resistance of galos who were constantly being pestered by the Romans to adapt
Yeah, but think about it. They suck at fighting, they are savages without culture nor technology, they are bullies, they are kidnappers and they are cowards. When they don't depend on their potion they depend of Obelix which is a living weapon of mass destruction.
French-german lies who are against Rome being the soul of Europe.
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No.1073494
>>1073410
And on my brithday as well. That sucks.
Take this as a gift, 33 books and a few others.
https://mega .nz/#!mkUCSCgL!-igybvNTxobF363XQN79sQ8lL-isNftwKd3V06BRvO8
>>1073484
Colored.
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No.1073531
>>1073494
>China helping with the vaccine for the virus they caused and released
>All those nationalities
So Asterix, like anything french, has become a big fat joke?
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No.1073534
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No.1073537
>>1073494
>Asterix vs Pandemix
What about Asterix vs Coronavirus? Not sure if story-timing it would be appropriate now, since Uderzo was not involved in creation of this volume.
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No.1073538
>>1073537
It just doesn't make any sense. Making this is just a cash grab.
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No.1073542
>>1073531
It's a tribute from a South African paper comic artist, Jonathan Shapiro.
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No.1073543
>>1073542
I guess a nigger? I thought south african whites learned the lesson regarding accepting niggers.
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No.1073547
>>1073543
>Jonathan Shapiro
Is it this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Shapiro
Because I doubt a person with the last name Shapiro is black.
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No.1073558
>>1073457
There was another Asterix that was about feminism, it got storytimed on here ages ago. Women take over the village and make contradictory demands, the men retaliate by just giving them what they want. Though mind you, I can't remember how that one ended, so maybe it's the same one.
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No.1073569
>>1073558
there are a few about feminism, which one are you thinking?
Asterix and the Secret Weapon?
Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter?
another one entirely?
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No.1073573
>>1073494
>>1073531
If anything it looks kinda racist, i mean it in the sense that leftists will most likely consider it so.
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No.1073575
>>1073558
It's the same one. A feminist from Paris moves to the town to change their culture into trendy city culture.
So at first its fine, she introduces a school system and dominates the men in the village and the Roman camps, because they aren't used to her self esteem. But at the same time, she has a shitty attitude. She does stuff like talk the villagers down, introduce them to crappy pop-music (which is annoyingly and loudly banging drums), naively introduces pacifism (and gets punched right in the face by a Roman for it) and tells the women that men are shit. At first it just leads to women e.g. refusing to make dinner, showing how incompetent the men are on their own, but later it leads to the women downright hating their husbands, making communication impossible and seperating the genders.
Also, the low women quota of the Roman army is questioned, so all male soldiers are replaced with women, which Asterix and the others refuse to fight against. The Romans are defeated by selling them fashion from Paris, so ironically, they are defeated by stereotypes.
Once the feminist character gained enough power, she starts to abuse her power, and the men don't dare to complain, because they don't want to seem sexist. In the end, she actually sexually harasses Asterix, who hits her in the face in return.
Thinking about it, holy crap, that comic is more current than ever. As a kid I hated that comic because the feminist character looks like a friggin monster.
>>1073569
The Chieftrain's Daughter isn't feminist. That one is about the villagers having to deal with their version of a Zoomer. I like the new comics in general, but that one's really boring. She's just complaining and hating on everything for the whole comic, and most of her opinions seem copied from somewhere else. It's puberty - the comic. It's "Asterix and the Vikings" without any edge. Speaking of edge, there's barely any brawl in the current comics, it's WAY too safe. They even removed the black pirate's accent, but every newly introduced black character still looks like a racist caricature.
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No.1073623
>>1073414
>CGI films
Anybody seen them? They look promising, but only because their original designs are kept intact.
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No.1073629
>>1073623
>Anybody seen them? They look promising, but only because their original designs are kept intact.
Yes, I recommend them. The cgi movies are very close to the older incarnations they don't push very hard with pop culture unlike the live action movies.
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No.1073630
>>1073623
I saw "City of Gods" (not the one about kids killing each other in Brazil lol) two days ago. Yeah, that one was actually good.
The style was well translated to 3D. The movie wasn't destroyed by shoehorning current shit in (instead, the story itself is kinda current, the higher costs for flats, moving away from the city etc.). The pacing was really good, although there's always another issue coming up to stretch the runtime which at some point became obvious. The Romans actually use latin quotes like in the comics, which they didn't even do in the older cartoon movies.
The movie actually benefits from 3D.
Everyone was charming, and I loved how they turned Caesar into a diabolic villain who seems to be the only serious guy in the movie.
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No.1073690
>>1073494
Thanks for the dump, sorry to hear about the birthday situation.
Ever thought about doing a Asterix storytime any time soon?
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No.1074063
I have this book in the Alea Jacta Est Series, they are very fascinating. Basically, you take the role of the guy on the cover who's new in the village and wants to be a rock star.
From there on, you puzzle your way through the story, and it continues depending on your choices. Sometimes decisions are made by rolling a die (hence the name), and there are also sub-games in it which you have to win, with their own rules. Plus, there's a pen and paper element to it, with points you add to your stats.
I never understood how you play it, but I was super fascinated by it as a kid, and its really inspiring. Check it out if you can find it.
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No.1074206
>>1074087
>pedo
That nothing to do with what he said anon
i'm happy this shit is banned now
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