TINTIN vs. ASTERIX

Anthea Bell interview here btw: https://www.connexionfrance.com/Archive/Making-Asterix-funny-in-English

I have one of those 70s Iznogouds too, they do seem like cheap knockoffs. Before Cinebooks, I had one English Lucky Luke that I read to death, "The Dalton Brother's Analyst" - translation is v. good, and Sic would prob approve of the hand lettering too.

Have many fond memories of avoiding the sun on childhood holidays so I could sit in a librarie and read Lucky Luke books for hours instead.

Great interview btw. This is amazjng:

Some of the later ones by Goscinny have long passages of extended literary allusions. In Le Cadeau de César [Caesar’s Gift] Asterix duels with a Roman soldier and he does it in the character of Cyrano de Bergerac, it’s wonderful, it goes on for almost a page. I sat looking at that and thought “the most famous swordfight in English literature is probably Hamlet and Laertes,” and the whole thing was done with quotations from Hamlet in the end.

I remember my secondary school French teacher (native French speaker) saying she thought the English translation of Asterix had better jokes than the original.