First 12 Greek albums with hard cover (21 May 10) 

The Greek publisher Mamouthcomix offers the first 12 albums with a hard cover (for the first time in Greece), publishing one album week. Info (in greek) can be found at kathimerini. The translation will be the same, the colors however are repainted. The new print is sponsored by the newspaper "Kathimerini" so for the time being it will only be available at newsagents.

Website news (4 February 10) 

Your webmasters have been very busy with some major improvements for this website. This results in new pages for each translation. The old pages automatically redirect you to the new pages (in case you bookmarked some). Thanks to new PHP scripts it's easy to generate up-to-date thumb overviews, concise tables or a printable Asterix translations guide. You also may have noticed that we have made some minor changes in the list of translations. E.g. Farsi is changed into Persian, Argentinean is now Spanish South America and Brazilian is changed into Portuguese Brazil. According to our list we count 112 translations while the "official" list counts 107, as we include the bootleg editions in Lithuanian, Thai and Sinhalese, the official Greenlandic translation which only appears in a newspaper (yes it's doubtful because there is no real album) and two Chinese versions according to information we found in old Asterix albums. We put a translation on our list when there is proof that albums of a translation are sold on the public market. Thanks to the new way we build our database, we are now able to create check lists like missing translator names or missing motto's... If you have a suggestion or question, don't hesitate to contact us.

Soon: the new book (19 October 09) 

L'Anniversaire d'Astérix et Obélix. Translated into English this means Asterix and Obelix celebrate their birthday, their fiftieth birthday, in fact. We are very happy that a new book (with the title quoted above) will mark this special occasion. As far as we understand it will consist of various short stories, where old friends of our to heroes come to the little village and share memories. Several translations will appear this week, and (yes, we were mistaken earlier) also the english version!!

From the Missive (18 Jan 09) 

Fresh news, from the official site! It is now confirmed from the official source, although you have to trust my French for now. Albert Uderzo has put the future of our hero Asterix in the hands the publisher Hachette. This opens the possibility that other artists create future adventures of our favourite Gauls. For now we are excited to learn that Uderzo is indeed working on a new album. We have to wait until October ... We are also sad to learn that Claude Berri, producer of the two live Asterix movies, has passed away. (more? see Missive 85)

Celebrating a golden wedding anniversary (15 January 09) 

Albert Uderzo as quoted on actuabd.com from a RTL interview: We are going to release an album which will be called 'The Golden Book of Asterix', like a golden wedding anniversary representing the fifty years of marriage. [...] The book is a tribute in which there will still new comics, mostly short stories that relate to the anniversaries of two characters. (Thanks Liam)

Asterix the Gaul to outlive his creator (13 January 09) 

PARIS (AFP) - Asterix [..] is to outlive his creator under a deal with the 81-year-old illustrator Albert Uderzo announced by his publisher on Friday. Uderzo, who has created the Asterix books single-handed since the death of co-author Rene Goscinny in 1977, has given his consent for the publisher Albert-Rene to keep the character alive after his death. [..] "It's a very good thing for Asterix," Rene Goscinny's daughter Anne, who also gave her consent for the series to carry on, told AFP. Yahoo News

From the Missive (17 Oct 08) 

Fresh news, from the official site! We have been waiting for this bulletin for half a year now, but we have been rewarded with the promise that a rush of activities is taking place for the festivities of next year when Asterix is turning 50. Translation related news: language 107, many new covers at the Translation Exchange (the site that warms our hearts) and special pages devoted to the various Greek editions. (more? see Missive 83)