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Fabrice Caro (Fabcaro) and Didier Conrad in 2023. The duo is back for a new Asterix album.
COMIC STRIP – Here we go again. The screenwriter Fabcaroarrived at writing the adventures of Asterix for The white Iris published in 2023, will come back for the next album of the hero of comic Gallic, he announced this Monday, October 28 in an interview with West France.
“It wasn’t planned but, yes, here we go again. Initially, I was called for just one album to replace Jean-Yves Ferri who wanted to work on his adventures with de Gaulle. But Éditions Albert René told me that he might need more time and told me not to stop me from thinking about a new scenario. It was confirmed”he told the daily.
Didier Conrad remains in the drawing
He said to himself ” delighted “ to re-pile. “If Jean-Yves wants to work on de Gaulle for ten Asterix albums, no worries! More seriously, I hope it doesn’t break his heart to let another Asterix pass by but I don’t think so. He will return more serenely afterwards”he added.
For the writing of the story of this 41st album, the title and release date of which are not yet known, Fabcaro confided that he was “closer to the end than the beginning”without giving details, while Didier Conrad will remain on the drawing.
The previous adventures of Asterix, marketed in October 2023, finished in first place in the book sales ranking in France last year, according to the ranking of the GfK institute which refers, with 1.54 million copies sold in two months.
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