Asterix - Asterix, The new album October 21 2021

By Mulder, 04 january 2021

"Even before I started working on the album, I had already thought of making our eternal diehards travel to this land that... ah, excuse me, I have a double call. "Jean-Yves Ferri

"But in the end, it's obvious. Take a good look at the details. Look at the drawing and think. It's obvious, isn't it? " - Didier Conrad

In this period of vows, the irreducible Gauls offer us the most beautiful gift: the remedy against the gloom which ensures us to spend a year 2021 rich in bursts of laughter. And bursts of laughter, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, the creators of genius, have offered many to millions of readers around the world with the famous little Gaul since 1959. Today, a new album is in preparation. And the year 2021 that is about to begin promises to be eventful, since this is not the only surprise offered to us by our dear devotees: Asterix will be the star of a major exhibition at the Château de Malbrouck, while Dogmatix, the children's favorite little dog, arrives on television for the first time.

The new Asterix album will be released on 21 October 2021. The two accomplices Jean Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad return. They have had the happy confinement, and have concocted an invigorating potion for us: A new Asterix album to be found on 21 October 2021 in all bookstores in Gaul and the Known World.

After Asterix and the Picts in 2013, Caesar's Papyrus in 2015, Asterix and the Transitalic in 2017 and The Daughter of Vercingetorix in 2019, the duo formed by Jean-Yves Ferri (script) and Didier Conrad (drawings) are now fine-tuning their fifth collaboration at the beginning of 2021, continuing the series created more than 60 years ago by the late René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The world's biggest publishing success - with more than 385 million albums sold in 111 languages and dialects - will thus welcome a 39th adventure that promises to be once again full of twists and turns. And, starting now, Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad are offering us a new board as an appetizer before the grand banquet next October.

As it is tradition (alternating between the two!), it is a trip that our friends are about to make for their 39th adventure. Let's take a closer look at this mysterious board by Ferri and Conrad: while our two friends challenge each other to a game of Gallic chess, our friend the druid Panoramix, who has fallen asleep a little, wakes up screaming. Who could have disturbed him so much in his sleep, and why the urgency to go to his aid? Here are the two greatest mysteries of the beginning of 2021: Where will our Gallic friends go?

(Source: Press release)