In the small Brittany village that we all know and love, everyone - warriors, craftsmen, merchants and druid alike - is carrying on peacefully with their activities…. Except for one hut in which can be heard blood-curdling screams: "Haaaaaaaa! Owww! Ooohhh!"But don't jump to conclusions: for once our bard is not the cause of this wailing. It is, in fact, our beloved leader who is once again prey to a dreadful bout of indigestion, the result of having over-indulged at the birthday banquet in honour of Asterix and Obelix! So, for once, you won't have to sit through one of his interminable speeches, even though today's news is a matter of great importance for all Asterix fans: the Grand Collection is back! This anthology of the Asterix adventures, restored to their full glory with fresh inking, lettering and colours, and presented for the very first time in a large format that expresses the full force of Albert Uderzo's drawings, had been relegated to the back shelf for a while. 
And why, do you ask? The many projects devised to celebrate Asterix's birthday had kept the entire team mobilized for months on end; they are now thrilled at the prospect of getting back to this exceptional project. To such a point that they are already hard at work - not on just one, but on two albums at once! We can thus present you with a preview of the covers for Asterix and the Big Fight and Asterix in Britain, both of which are to be published next year. It won't be long before we will be bringing you more news and amazing surprises! Discover our mini-site on the Asterix Grand Collection.. |
Tuesday 15 December 2009
The Asterix Grand Collection is Back!
Wednesday 26 November 2008
Competition for the more dogmatic Asterix fans
Games and contests - The Grand Collection
There's panic among of Asterix.com Virtual Village fans: the new Asterix Quiz, which you can find in Dogmatix's hut, will put to the test even the greatest of experts on our heroes.
Tapidesourix has noted that one of the five questions in our new Quiz causes you great difficulty. Correct answers are few and far between and doubts still persist: will we find 5 lucky prize winners to claim a copy of the Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques (Asterix at the Olympic Games) album from the French Grand Collection, published last summer? You have until the end of the month to try your luck and make a mockery of our IT druid's pessimism. Good luck to one and all! |
Monday 24 November 2008
Two additions to the Asterix Grand Collection
The Grand Collection - Edition
Home-cinema fans "in the know" have a choice: either to discover their favourite films in DVD format or to sample the experience in high definition with Blu-Ray. Here, in the indomitable Gauls' virtual village, there's still a few of us who cling to the prehistoric era of VHS cassettes... suffice to say, they are old hat these days…On the other hand, when it comes to the greatest classic in the comic book world, the clued-up comic book fans that we are have no need to hesitate: Asterix truly deserves his Grand Collection! 
The equivalent of high definition for comic books, the Asterix Grand Collection lets you assemble all the adventures of the winged-helmet Gaul in large format edition, featuring restored inking, lettering and colours. There really isn't any better way of admiring the wealth of detail and wonderful artistry of Albert Uderzo's drawings.And just recently, two new albums have been added to this collection: Asterix and the Great Divide, where love and politics collide in an epic, hilarious melodrama, plus Asterix and the Black Gold, which shows that even if the Gauls have any petra oleum (petrol), they're never short of ideas for how to have some fun! Two albums for two unforgettable stars: the ghastly Codfix in Asterix and the Great Divide, and the spy Dubbelosix, a caricature in homage to Sean Connery, in Asterix and the Black Gold. |
Thursday 24 January 2008
Asterix Quiz December session: and the winners are…
Games and contests - The official asterix.com website - The Grand Collection
By Toutatis, it’s well-earned! Five lucky Indomitable Gauls have brilliantly answered our Asterix Quiz questions and have won two new books from the original French Asterix Grand Collection.Their names? Céline JOLY, Valérie CHANE-MENG-HIME, Serge PAULIN, Jean-Claude MAQUER and Jean-François CANESTRO. They will have the chance to receive Asterix and the Banquet and Asterix and Cleopatra in their original French Asterix Grand Collection editions.
And there is still a few more days left to try your luck in our new Asterix Quiz in order to win Asterix at the Olympic Games video games. These Asterix competitions really are something not to be missed, aren’t they?
Voir aussi :
Our special Asterix at the Olympics Games website
The Asterix Grand Collection
Discover Asterix at the Olympic Games video games
Obi
Friday 28 December 2007
Special mini-site for the Asterix Grand Collection
The Grand Collection - The official asterix.com website
With the publication of more than a dozen albums in little over a year, the Asterix Grand Collection has become a permanent feature on shelves of avid readers of the most famous of all Gauls.It was high time that the official Asterix.com site offered a couple of pages devoted to this collection, which lets the best of Gaulish history make the most of XXIst century printing and publication techniques.
So here is the special Asterix Grand Collection mini-site, where you will discover, in word and image, the different steps involved in restoring the Asterix albums (new inking, new lettering, new colours, etc.). You can also compare the plates before and after restoration, cast an expert collector’s eye on the brand new eight-page contained within each album, and discover all the titles which have already been published. Enjoy!
Obi
Friday 21 December 2007
Asterix Quiz November session: the winners!
Games and contests - The official asterix.com website - The Grand Collection
Asterix and son and Asterix and the Magic Carpet in their French original Grand Collection edition are the books won by the lucky winners of our Asterix Quiz November session.Their names? Diana MENEGATTI, Myriam LARABI, Richard GROUSSET, Nabil SBAI and Tom FELT. The latter gets special congratulations from our druidic jury as he’s one of the very few winners coming from the United States, also known by our Gauls as the country of the gobblers. Now who could deny that Asterix’s journey the New World, depicted in the album Asterix and the Great Crossing, has been a memorable one for our friends living on the other side of the Atlantic?
The December session of our Asterix Quiz now offers you a chance to win two more Asterix Grand Collection books: Asterix and the Banquet and Asterix and Cleopatra. Good luck!
Obi