Wikilix: the new Asterix there is a character inspired by Assange – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The 36 Asterix was presented this Monday in Paris ten days before its worldwide release (including Portugal) and between the new characters there is a strong connection present: Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, inspired Doublepolemix, a Gaul journalist. The papyrus Caesar , focused on advertising and the way information is treated by the media, will have a circulation of four million copies.

 

In a press conference on Monday, in full Eiffel Tower in Paris, Jean-Yves Ferri authors (screenwriter) and Didier Conrad (illustrator) were attended by Albert Uderzo and René’s daughter Goscinny, Anne Goscinny. And they talked about newspapers and journalism, which in the new book will have names like Le Mundus (unrelated to the French newspaper Le Monde , explained) and the Matin de Lutèce.

It is in the latter that works Doublepolemix journalist, whose figure is very close to the whistleblower Julian Assange. And that, and the way of the usual names of the small village of Gauls who resist the invader still and always, full of puns or blinks an eye, almost going to call Wikilix. In English, the reporter call shall be Confoundtheirpolitix.

“Assange was a model for this character,” explained Ferri, quoted by AFP, adding even Wikilix has indeed been weighted to its name. Next information well is a new character in the village of Gauls – Wifix a newspaper reader very well informed. Since the villain will be Bonus Promoplus, “inspired by the men who influence the power” and that is a very close adviser to Caesar. Visually, it’s like the mogul French advertising Jacques Segela, but according to Ferri is inspired by presidential advisers as Henri Guaino or Patrick Buisson, both of Nicolas Sarkozy team.

The Asterix series, whose character debuted in 1959, is being continued by Ferri and Conrad after Uderzo output, 88 in 2011 – and the death of René Goscinny in 1977. The first album after the inaugural strips in the journal Fly , was published in 1961 and the latest, Asterix among the Picts was the first exclusively created by the new double-authors. Its launch in 2013 was a publishing success, with more than 5.4 million copies sold worldwide.

The papyrus Caesar is published in Portugal on 22 in Portuguese edition and also in Mirandese.