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The drawings / illustrations in Asterix and Tintin comics are just great. I like them almost more than the stories or characters, especially for the Asterix one
by vram22 8y ago
The drawings / illustrations in Asterix and Tintin comics are just great. I like them almost more than the stories or characters, especially for the Asterix ones. The drawings of scenery are very evocative, and expressions on the faces of the people in the comics seem very realistic, despite being drawn with just a few lines, relatively speaking.
Another great point about Asterix comics (so I read), is that they were initially written in French, and later translated into English (I've only read them in English) - and still there are many puns and word plays in the English versions. I don't know how they managed to do it, or whether they created different puns for the English versions. Likely the latter, because I guess the puns would not translate well across languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
- nojvek 8y agoI grew up on Tin Tin comics. They were available in my school library in Nairobi. That stuff was crack. Such adventures! Really made it fun to read.
- vram22 8y agoYes, crazy kinds of adventures. Things or issues that seem impossible to solve, yet they (Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus) come out of them successfully most of the time, not to mention Thomson and Thompson :)
- BrandoElFollito 8y agoI've never seen Asterix in English and just checked the Wikipedia page you linked. I was wondering how they translated the characters' names. Since the chief is Vitalstatistix, then it must be good. Nothing to do with the French name but still funny.
- vmilner 8y agoIdefix to Dogmatix is a gem.
- vram22 8y agoHa ha, just googled that. A gem indeed. Idée fixe (fixed idea, obsession) to Dogmatix (Dog / Dogmatic). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogmatix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogmatix
- vram22 8y agoRight :) Some other names I like are Bacteria (wife of the fishmonger, Unhygienix), Cacophonix, the bard, Getafix, the druid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters