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'''Didier Conrad''' (born 6 May 1959) is a French [[comics artist]] and [[comics writer|writer]]. Since 2012, he has been the artist of the popular ''[[Asterix]]'' series. |
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'''Didier Conrad''', born on 6 May 1959 in [[Marseille]], France, is a cartoonist and writer [[comics]]. He is the illustrator and cartoonist of [[Asterix and the Missing Scroll]] and [[Asterix and the Picts]].<ref>http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/03/31/the-best-selling-comic-of-2015-gets-a-title-asterix-and-the-missing-scroll/</ref><ref>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a525996/asterix-and-the-picts-released-takes-place-in-scotland.html#~pchGXTGmuQvrOc</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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Didier Conrad was born in [[Marseille]] of parents originally from [[Switzerland]]. He quickly developed a passion for comics and, at 14, he send a plank [[Journal de Spirou]] that was published in the ''Carte Blanche'' number 1865. Five years later, in 1978, Conrad published his first cartoon in the newspaper: |
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"Jason" from a screenplay by [[Mythic]]. Thierry Martens (author), the then editor, had contacted two years ago with another author who also lives in Marseille: Yann Pennetier. The two young designers, despite having different personalities, had common tastes and decided to work ensemble.<ref>http://www.lefigaro.fr/bd/2012/10/11/03014-20121011ARTFIG00399-asterix-change-de-dessinateur-pour-son-35e-album.php</ref> After failed attempts to be published in ''cold fluid'', they proposed new work in ''Spirou'' magazine. They published their first story in 1979. ''Sawfee: The Saga Hangman'' appeared in the number 2143 edition of Spirou magazine. |
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===Beginnings=== |
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Didier Conrad was born in [[Marseille]] of parents originally from [[Switzerland]]. He developed a passion for comics and, at age 14, he sent a page to ''[[Journal de Spirou]]'' that was published in a page reserved for new talents. Five years later, in 1978, Conrad published his first comics series in the magazine: "Jason", written by [[Mythic (comics)|Mythic]]. Spirou editor Thierry Martens put him in touch with another aspiring comics author also from Marseille: [[Yann Le Pennetier]]. The pair hit it off despite having quite different personalities and decided to work together.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/bd/2012/10/11/03014-20121011ARTFIG00399-asterix-change-de-dessinateur-pour-son-35e-album.php|title=Astérix change de dessinateur pour son 35e album|date=11 October 2012|website=FIGARO}}</ref> |
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After a few more short stories, the new editor in chief [[Alain De Kuyssche]] offered the duo animation jobs in the newspaper. |
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===Spirou years=== |
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After publishing a few short comics in ''Spirou'' together in which they collaborated on both the writing and art, Yann & Conrad were tasked by the new editor Alain de Kuyssche with adding doodles and jokes in the top margin of the magazine's pages. This was generally considered a chore by the magazine's contributors, but Yann & Conrad shook things up by spoofing and sometimes outright insulting the series straight below their work. This caused a controversy at the magazine, during which they were defended by the magazine's veteran artist [[André Franquin]], who felt they were regenerating a now stale publication. |
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Yann and Conrad were in search of a new journal to publish their brands. They contacted organizations and ended up at ''[[Circus (periodic)|Circus]]'', a brand new magazine editions [[Glénat (publisher)|Glénat]]. Initially, the publisher repeated the feat of offering them 'senior pages'' but the duo refused because they did not see the point as the newspaper did not have the same liability as the ''[[Journal Spirou]]''. They then intended to resume the parody "[[Bob Morane]]" they had already published two short stories in [[1981]] in Spirou. The first episode of "[[Bob Marone]]" called "[[White Dinosaur]]", started in October [[1983]]. The second episode, "[[White Dinosaur: The Last Stand|The Clash]]", started a year later. It also marked the end of the collaboration of the duo. Yann and Conrad are blurred in the publication of this episode and was [[Sophie Commenge]], the companion of Conrad, who finished the script. |
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The pair was next asked to devise an action series in the style of another ''Spirou'' star character, [[Buck Danny]], then on a hiatus. They appeared to comply, teasing a new series to be called "Chuck Willys", apparently starring a square-jawed all-American war hero. This character however was run over by a Jeep in the second panel, never to be seen again, and the series retitled ''Les Innommables'' (the Unnamables). Les Innommables was originally written by Conrad, who was busy drawing "Jason", and drawn by Yann, but recognising their respective strengths, they eventually switched tasks. The series broke every possible taboo in a comics magazine aimed at children, featuring violence, sex and cruelty, and the pair were eventually sacked in 1982. |
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During their period at ''Spirou'', Conrad and Yann both still lived in Marseille and would spend the odd week in Brussels, staying in a guest room in the magazine's building. They later boasted that they would frequently break into the offices at night and read all the internal correspondence about themselves. |
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===After Spirou=== |
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Yann and Conrad went in search of a new magazine to publish their work and ended up at ''[[Circus (periodic)|Circus]]'', a publication recently launched by publisher [[Glénat (publisher)|Glénat]]. Turning down a request to do more "top margin" works, they instead resurrected a series started earlier at Spirou and called "Bob Marone", a spoof of the best-selling pulp novel and comics series "[[Bob Morane]]" by Henri Vernes. Two albums telling a single time-travelling story about a hunt for a white dinosaur were published, but Yann and Conrad fell out before the end and Conrad finished the second story with his girlfriend Sophie Commenge (using the pen name "Lucie") as writer. |
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After parting with Yann, Conrad became less productive. He created stories of exotic adventures continuing his collaboration with Lucie and signing scenarios "Conrad" now under his real name, [[Sophie Commenge]]. "The Avatar", the first episode of the adventures of [[Ernest Poildu]], is published directly in edition 1985 in ''[[Bédéfil]]''. A second episode, "[[Jatra - The Fall of Allyor]]", was announced but was never published, although produced and pre-published in the eponymous part of the quarterly editions ''[[Bédéfil]]''. |
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===Without Yann=== |
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For 5 years, Didier Conrad did not produce anything new. His only appearances in the comic rays were republishing [[Adventure yellow]] in the 1986 edition of ''[[Bédéscope]]'' and the first edition of ''[[Shukumei]]'' the following year. On the back of these publications are announced "cloaca" and a fourth episode named "[[The Innommables (comics)|The Innommables]]". |
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After parting with Yann, Conrad reduced his output and began working with Sophie Commenge, now using her real name, on a new character called Ernest Poildu, One album only came out, though a second story was partly published in a quarterly magazine. Conrad published no new album in the second half of the 1980s. |
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In 1990, Conrad returned to Dupuis, the publishing house behind Spirou magazine, which had somewhat modernised since the early 1980s and had launched a new album collection called "Aire Libre" giving authors some editorial freedom. Conrad reused his character Ernest Poildu in a new two-part story called "Le Piège Malais" ("The Malay Trap") and published a limited run album called "Tatum: La Machine Écarlate". He then produced a new series titled "Donito", the adventures of a little boy who talks to animals which is set in the Caribbean. For this series, Conrad finally turned his back on the provocations of his previous works and drew more inspiration from Walt Disney. |
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1990 was a decisive year for Conrad. He is back at Dupuis at that. Meanwhile, the publishing house evolved and offered a collection that is aimed more for adults: "Aire Libre". Conrad published in this collection diptych "[[Malay Trap]]" which portrays the character of "The Avatar" Ernest Poildu in a similar story. The same year, published by the author, on a limited edition "[[Tatum: The Scarlet Machine]]", scripted again by Sophie Commenge. In these new works, the style is changed. It is less nervous, less influenced by Franquin and gradually shifts to that of author Morris. |
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Conrad offers a new regular series, "Donito", the adventures of a little boy who talks to animals which is set in the Caribbean. A series is classic, the opposite of provocative style of previous years. Graphically, Donito is a band with bright colors and Direct Line simplified. In five editions, Conrad uses his sensitivity. The "brat" becomes a storyteller of wonderful stories closer to [[Walt Disney]] and [[Pepito]] Conrad read as a child. |
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In 1994, Conrad reunited with Yann to resurrect their now cult series [[Les Innommables]], which had ended abruptly when they were sacked by Spirou. The existing albums were remade and more episodes produced, turning the series into a more coherent saga with several successive story arcs, set respectively in Hong Kong, Korea and the US. The order of the albums was modified several times to fit the original one-shot stories within the saga. |
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===Reunion with Yann=== |
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At the same time as Les Innommables returned, a spin-off series of the very popular [[Lucky Luke]] character by [[Morris (cartoonist)|Morris]] appeared, titled Kid Lucky and purporting to show the character as a child, a popular trope in 1990s comics. This was credited to writer Jean Léturgie and artist Pearce, whose style resembled that of Conrad remarkably. When Morris and his publisher scrapped the series after two albums, it emerged that Pearce was actually Yann & Conrad sharing both writing and drawing duties as they had done at the beginning of their collaboration. The pair had decided to use a pen name for a series aimed at children to differentiate it from the rest of their joint output. Jean Léturgie and "Pearce" then launched a series in the same style called Cotton Kid and published five albums between 1999 and 2002. |
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In 1994, appears in bookstores new unreleased album of Innommables, "The Skull Father Zé", published by Dargaud. Meanwhile, the series became cult and the first album a real success. It comes in three different covers and the back of this album is announced two new episodes. The story is the result of [[Adventure yellow]]. Marketing is the same as another series of Yann also published at the time with Philippe Berthet [[Pin-Up (cartoon)|Pin-Up]]. Yann and Conrad are back along the Innommables. The second episode, Ching SOAO, released the following year and won just as successful. It offers a supplement: the price list Purple Lotus, the brothel in which evolve Mac and his two accomplices. The album regularly come out with, for the first editions, original supplements ever more than each other. After four episodes, Adventure yellow is republished. Its supplement is the first edition of [[Serial Triple Zero]]. The series is the first time reorganized. Cesspools is rehabilitated in two volumes. New episodes are emerging. The series is renumbered several times until the republication of Shukumei, which requires a final numbering. |
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In 1996, Conrad was hired by [[DreamWorks Animation]] to work on the film ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]''. He moved to the [[United States]] to do so, but continued to work on comics as well, working simultaneously on Les Innommables, Kid Lucky then Cotton Kid, and more Bob Marone stories for [[Fluide Glacial]] magazine. Bob Marone was now written by Yann & Conrad and drawn by another artist, [[Yoann]] using the pen name Janus. Yann & Conrad also created a new spin-off series of Les Innommables titled Tigresse Blanche ("White Tiger") and focusing on the character of Alix Yin Fu, a female shaolin fighter and [[Communist Party of China|CCP]] trainee spy. This prequel series is set several years before Les Innommables, at the time of the [[Chinese Civil War]]. Conrad drew seven Tigresse Blanche albums in total, the first two written with Yann and another five with Sophie Commenge, now using the pen name Wilbur. |
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=== The mysterious Pearce === |
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While the first two episodes of Innommables came out in bookstores, a new writer, graphic design very similar to that of Conrad, made its appearance. [[Pearce (cartoonist)|Pearce]] shape "Kid Lucky" or the adventures of young "[[Lucky Luke]]" that runs through the West in the company of an old trapper. The world of comics questioned this author. This is the trait of Conrad and Yann humor, although the scenarios are of [[John Léturgie]]. Later, we learn that under the pseudonym Pearce actually hides the duo Yann and Conrad, returning both for drawings and scenarios. Morris gives them carte blanche to this spin-off of Lucky Luke but after the second album, Jim Oklahoma, Morris thanked the trio and the project is abandoned. John Pearce Léturgie and recycle their ideas in a new series close enough, [[Kid Cotton]], the first episode, pre-published in Bodoï, was published in album with [[Vents d'Ouest (editor)|Winds of West]] in 1999. The series continues until 2002 and continues for five albums. |
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===Asterix=== |
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In 2012, [[Albert Uderzo]] chose Conrad and writer [[Jean-Yves Ferri]] to take over the best-selling series [[Asterix]], which Uderzo had created with [[René Goscinny]] in 1959 and continued on his own since the latter's death in 1977. Conrad and Ferri released the 35th Asterix adventure, ''[[Asterix and the Picts]]'', in October 2013, and the 36th, ''[[Asterix and the Missing Scroll]]'' in October 2015. The 37th album, ''[[Asterix and the Chariot Race]]'', was released on 19 October 2017;<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/obelix-is-the-star-of-new-asterix-adventure/article/484066|title=Obelix is the star of new Asterix adventure|date=20 January 2017|access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref> the 38th, ''[[Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter]]'', in 2019; and the 39th – their fifth – ''[[Asterix and the Griffin]]'', in 2021. |
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In [[1996]], he was hired by the studio [[DreamWorks Animation|Dreamworks]] to work in the film ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]''. He decided to settle in the [[United States]]. That's where it will lead two projects: The Innommables, under his real name, and Kid Lucky and Kid Cotton under the pseudonym Yann common with [[Pearce (cartoonist)|Pearce]]. The duo Yann and Conrad also scripted new episodes of Bob Marone in cold fluid from 2003. Their original intention was to propose several designers for the cover of Bob Marone on their list are Hardy, Verron or Tarrin which will propose a project that will eventually be rejected by [[Fluid cold]]. It is ultimately Yoann, under the name Janus, to be selected in the drawing. Seven Stories from May to July planks are published 2003 to 2005. |
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For the 2023 release of the 40th Asterix album, ''[[Asterix and the White Iris]]'', Conrad worked with a new scriptwriter, [[Fabcaro]]. |
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The life of Conrad in the United States influenced his vision of the country. It is reflected in the latest round of Innommables that starts with "East of Roswell". After this last cycle, Conrad and Yann proposed a new story that features only Alix Yin Fu, Asian including Mac falls in Innommables. The publisher offers them rather than incorporating this album to the series, to make a spin-off series. Thus is born White Tigress. In this first episode, many references are made to the episode Shukumei of Innommables. Yann leaves the post of writer after the second episode is Wilbur, aka Sophie Commenge, which repeats the scenario for the next four albums. In 2007, always written by Wilbur, Conrad publishes a new series for Dargaud, [[Raj (comics)|Raj]], which tells the beginnings of [[British India|British colonialism in India]]. A framework he knows and has operated in "The Avatar"' then the diptych Malay Trap. |
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He is chosen by Albert Uderzo to replace him as draftsman of [[Asterix]],<ref>http://www.midilibre.fr/2012/10/10/asterix-change-de-dessinateur-pour-son-prochain-album,575985.php</ref> series created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in 1959 from 2013. The 35th volume "[[Asterix and the Picts]]", scripted by Jean-Yves Ferri, was released on Oct. 24 2013.<ref>http://www.france24.com/fr/20131022-asterix-obelix-pictes-vive-ecosse-libre-referendum-independance</ref> |
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* http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/02/08/meet-the-new-creators-of-asterix-jean-yves-ferri-and-didier-conrad/ |
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* {{Helveticat}} |
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* [http://didierconrad.weebly.com/ A site dedicated to Didier Conrad] |
* [http://didierconrad.weebly.com/ A site dedicated to Didier Conrad] |
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Latest revision as of 21:08, 17 April 2024
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 Didier Conrad at Lucca Comics & Games 2015 | |
| Born | 6 May 1959 Marseille, France |
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Didier Conrad (born 6 May 1959) is a French comics artist and writer. Since 2012, he has been the artist of the popular Asterix series.
Biography
[edit]Beginnings
[edit]Didier Conrad was born in Marseille of parents originally from Switzerland. He developed a passion for comics and, at age 14, he sent a page to Journal de Spirou that was published in a page reserved for new talents. Five years later, in 1978, Conrad published his first comics series in the magazine: "Jason", written by Mythic. Spirou editor Thierry Martens put him in touch with another aspiring comics author also from Marseille: Yann Le Pennetier. The pair hit it off despite having quite different personalities and decided to work together.[1]
Spirou years
[edit]After publishing a few short comics in Spirou together in which they collaborated on both the writing and art, Yann & Conrad were tasked by the new editor Alain de Kuyssche with adding doodles and jokes in the top margin of the magazine's pages. This was generally considered a chore by the magazine's contributors, but Yann & Conrad shook things up by spoofing and sometimes outright insulting the series straight below their work. This caused a controversy at the magazine, during which they were defended by the magazine's veteran artist André Franquin, who felt they were regenerating a now stale publication. The pair was next asked to devise an action series in the style of another Spirou star character, Buck Danny, then on a hiatus. They appeared to comply, teasing a new series to be called "Chuck Willys", apparently starring a square-jawed all-American war hero. This character however was run over by a Jeep in the second panel, never to be seen again, and the series retitled Les Innommables (the Unnamables). Les Innommables was originally written by Conrad, who was busy drawing "Jason", and drawn by Yann, but recognising their respective strengths, they eventually switched tasks. The series broke every possible taboo in a comics magazine aimed at children, featuring violence, sex and cruelty, and the pair were eventually sacked in 1982. During their period at Spirou, Conrad and Yann both still lived in Marseille and would spend the odd week in Brussels, staying in a guest room in the magazine's building. They later boasted that they would frequently break into the offices at night and read all the internal correspondence about themselves.
After Spirou
[edit]Yann and Conrad went in search of a new magazine to publish their work and ended up at Circus, a publication recently launched by publisher Glénat. Turning down a request to do more "top margin" works, they instead resurrected a series started earlier at Spirou and called "Bob Marone", a spoof of the best-selling pulp novel and comics series "Bob Morane" by Henri Vernes. Two albums telling a single time-travelling story about a hunt for a white dinosaur were published, but Yann and Conrad fell out before the end and Conrad finished the second story with his girlfriend Sophie Commenge (using the pen name "Lucie") as writer.
Without Yann
[edit]After parting with Yann, Conrad reduced his output and began working with Sophie Commenge, now using her real name, on a new character called Ernest Poildu, One album only came out, though a second story was partly published in a quarterly magazine. Conrad published no new album in the second half of the 1980s.
The return of Conrad
[edit]In 1990, Conrad returned to Dupuis, the publishing house behind Spirou magazine, which had somewhat modernised since the early 1980s and had launched a new album collection called "Aire Libre" giving authors some editorial freedom. Conrad reused his character Ernest Poildu in a new two-part story called "Le Piège Malais" ("The Malay Trap") and published a limited run album called "Tatum: La Machine Écarlate". He then produced a new series titled "Donito", the adventures of a little boy who talks to animals which is set in the Caribbean. For this series, Conrad finally turned his back on the provocations of his previous works and drew more inspiration from Walt Disney.
The return of Les Innommables
[edit]In 1994, Conrad reunited with Yann to resurrect their now cult series Les Innommables, which had ended abruptly when they were sacked by Spirou. The existing albums were remade and more episodes produced, turning the series into a more coherent saga with several successive story arcs, set respectively in Hong Kong, Korea and the US. The order of the albums was modified several times to fit the original one-shot stories within the saga.
Reunion with Yann
[edit]At the same time as Les Innommables returned, a spin-off series of the very popular Lucky Luke character by Morris appeared, titled Kid Lucky and purporting to show the character as a child, a popular trope in 1990s comics. This was credited to writer Jean Léturgie and artist Pearce, whose style resembled that of Conrad remarkably. When Morris and his publisher scrapped the series after two albums, it emerged that Pearce was actually Yann & Conrad sharing both writing and drawing duties as they had done at the beginning of their collaboration. The pair had decided to use a pen name for a series aimed at children to differentiate it from the rest of their joint output. Jean Léturgie and "Pearce" then launched a series in the same style called Cotton Kid and published five albums between 1999 and 2002.
In 1996, Conrad was hired by DreamWorks Animation to work on the film The Road to El Dorado. He moved to the United States to do so, but continued to work on comics as well, working simultaneously on Les Innommables, Kid Lucky then Cotton Kid, and more Bob Marone stories for Fluide Glacial magazine. Bob Marone was now written by Yann & Conrad and drawn by another artist, Yoann using the pen name Janus. Yann & Conrad also created a new spin-off series of Les Innommables titled Tigresse Blanche ("White Tiger") and focusing on the character of Alix Yin Fu, a female shaolin fighter and CCP trainee spy. This prequel series is set several years before Les Innommables, at the time of the Chinese Civil War. Conrad drew seven Tigresse Blanche albums in total, the first two written with Yann and another five with Sophie Commenge, now using the pen name Wilbur.
Asterix
[edit]In 2012, Albert Uderzo chose Conrad and writer Jean-Yves Ferri to take over the best-selling series Asterix, which Uderzo had created with René Goscinny in 1959 and continued on his own since the latter's death in 1977. Conrad and Ferri released the 35th Asterix adventure, Asterix and the Picts, in October 2013, and the 36th, Asterix and the Missing Scroll in October 2015. The 37th album, Asterix and the Chariot Race, was released on 19 October 2017;[2] the 38th, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, in 2019; and the 39th – their fifth – Asterix and the Griffin, in 2021.
For the 2023 release of the 40th Asterix album, Asterix and the White Iris, Conrad worked with a new scriptwriter, Fabcaro.
References
[edit]- ^ "Astérix change de dessinateur pour son 35e album". FIGARO. 11 October 2012.
- ^ "Obelix is the star of new Asterix adventure". 20 January 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
Sources
[edit]- Vivian Lecuivre and Serge Buch, Yann and Conrad a monograph, Mosquito, 2007.
External links
[edit]- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/24/asterix-picts-interview-ferri-conrad
- http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/02/08/meet-the-new-creators-of-asterix-jean-yves-ferri-and-didier-conrad/
- Publications by and about Didier Conrad in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
- A site dedicated to Didier Conrad
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