Dogmatix and the Indomitables 2: The Romans Go to the Dogs

Enjoy this fantastic spin-off to the timeless classic series ASTERIX, translated and distributed for the first time in North America.

Dogmatix and his crew of indomitable animals — Gluttonix and Stamina the dogs, Asmatix and Nocturnix the owls, and Bantera the cat — return to continue resisting the Roman invaders. And these animals won’t let sleeping dogs lie! General Labienus erects a huge new statue in Lutetia. But when Nocturnix the druid creates a new potion — to disastrous effect — Dogmatix may have to team up with the Romans to save the day. Plus: Stamina may have found her master, Clovogarlix. And he wants to play fetch and hide and go seek! But is Clovogarlix a dog lover, or is there more to these games?

Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926. After growing up in Argentina, he came to America where he shared a studio with future MAD magazine co-founder Harvey Kurtzman and collaborators Will Elder and Jack Davis. In 1959, he founded the magazine Pilote, which premiered what was to become the most successful comic series anywhere: Asterix. He died suddenly of cardiac arrest in 1977 at the age of 51.

Albert Uderzo was born in France 1927 to Italian immigrants. In 1959, Goscinny and Uderzo became editor and artistic director (respectively) of Pilote magazine. Their creation, Asterix, became a runaway success. After Goscinny's death in 1977, 26 volumes of Asterix were complete, Uderzo continued to write and illustrate the Asterix books on his own, publishing 8 volumes. He retired in 2011 but continued to oversee Asterix publications by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad until his death in 2020. The Asterix cover credits still read "Goscinny and Uderzo.”

Philippe Fenech is the artist of several children's and humor comics published by Soleil, Vents d'Ouest and Bamboo. Born in Montpellier, he studied between 1994 and 2000 and subsequently made the gag strip 'Requin Barjot' for his local newspaper. Between 2000 and 2002, he divided his time between working as a professor in drawing and cinema, and as a freelance artist for Hachette. He was responsible for several game pages published in the Disney publications published by Hachette. He also made the gag series 'Après La Classe' for these magazines, in cooperation with writer Dobbs.