Asterix and The Missing Scroll - Hardcover

Ferri, Jean-Yves

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1510100458 ISBN 13: 9781510100459

Publisher: Asterix, 2015

Synopsis

The long-awaited latest Asterix album, featuring the world's favourite Gaul. Following in the footsteps of Goscinny and Uderzo, Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad have created the 36th Asterix album, which centres around a mysterious missing scroll. Caesar is back...And he's not happy! Hardly surprising, considering the Missing Scroll of the title belongs to big, bad Caesar himself! But we also learn about a book that means a great deal to dear old Julius...Could it be the famous Comments on the Gallic War? News from the Village All is calm with Asterix and his friends, but is all that about to change? A new baddie for the collection: Libellus Blockbustus "The better the villain, the better the film..." Alfred Hitchcock's famous adage applies just as well to Asterix, whose rollcall of baddies (Codfix, Tortuous Convolvulus, Caius Preposterus, Artifis, etc.) is impressive! Asterix and the Missing Scroll features an evil new character: Libellus Blockbustus. Join millions of fans worldwide to celebrate Asterix and the Gauls in their latest adventure.

About this title

About the Author:

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 35 Asterix albums. Illustrator Didier Conrad was born in Marseille in 1959. He moved to America after his style got him noticed by Disney and Dreamworks, and in 1996 he designed the characters and storyboard for the 2000 animated film THE ROAD TO EL DORADO.Jean-Yves Ferri lives in the Ariège area of south-western France. Before writing the 35th Asterixalbum, he worked on the famous series Le Retour à la Terre, as well as the adventures of a police officer named Aimé Lacapelle.

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Review:

A brilliant addition to the Asterix family by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad. Perfect for children and adults alike, it's a book which I have no doubt will have you clutching your sides with laughter as you follow Asterix and Obelix on their latest adventure.―The Bookbag

The artwork is very polished and dynamic. It looks just as good as any previous Asterix book, and one would have to be a real aficionado to tell it apart from Albert Uderzo's work. As for the writing, the story is on a par with many of the better books [...] it would appear that Asterix and Obelix will be entertaining children and adults for many, many years to come.―Frank Plowright, Slings and Arrows Graphic Novel Guide

I would recommend this story to adventure fans everywhere.―Lotus, The Guardian Children's Books Young Reviewers

Following in the footsteps of Goscinny and Uderzo, this is just as good as the originals and a delight to have a new Asterix story. The storyline is as funny as ever and the illustrations by Didier Conrad are spot on―Parents In Touch

Fast paced and extremely cheeky and funny with some brilliant digs and in-jokes about everything from politics to the press.―Read It Daddy

Didier Conrad's illustrations are absolutely fantastic and guarantee a lovely continuity of the series, especially if you're an Asterix fan. I thought the core of the story was brilliant.―School Librarian

Asterix is a series which takes some liberties with historical fact, using the two thousand year gap between the time of the Roman Empire and the present day to great comic effect―Aberdeen Press & Journal

An energetic story with some very bad/good jokes, and just enough silly Roman-bashing, it's just the sort of thing we Asterix fans love―THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

A real treat ... the new books will appeal to young readers, for whom it will be, hopefully, just the beginning―School Librarian

The humour, married with the most intricate of details tells the 'real' story of Julius Caesar's defeat at the hands of the Gauls. Asterix, that feisty little Gaul, has transcended the ages!―Natasha Radford, The Best New Children's Books Guide

About this edition

• Publisher: Asterix
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1510100458
• ISBN 13: 9781510100459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Conrad Didier