Asterix: Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book: Album 34 - Softcover

Goscinny, René

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444000950 ISBN 13: 9781444000955

Publisher: Sphere, 2010

Synopsis

The 34th album chronicling the much-loved adventures of Asterix and friends.

About this title

About the Authors

Albert Uderzo has been illustrating Asterix for 37 years, and has written the most recent titles since Goscinny's death. He enjoys racing sports cars and owns a large number of Ferraris. He was the recipient of the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, for services to the arts. Asterix is a best seller in 70 languages

Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977.

Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of Pilote. Asterix the Gaul, their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 38 Asterix albums, the 39th to come in October 2021.

From the Back Cover

To mark the 50th anniversary Orion will be publishing the first brand-new album for five years and an exciting new edition of a classic album about the childhood of Asterix and Obelix (How Obelix fell into the Magic Potion) that has been unavaialble in English for many years. This is a collection of 12 new stories - all linked by the theme of Asterix's anniversary celebration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444000950
• ISBN 13: 9781444000955
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Uderzo Albert
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56