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Reissued Asterix Comics Have An Ugly-Racial-Stereotype Problem

WORDS Posted: August 20, 2020 11:02 am

A series of collected strips, in a new English translation, about the funny little Gaul and his fellows resisting the Romans is now being released in the U.S. That’s bringing new attention to an old problem: the way the original artist in the 1960s depicted African slaves. The U.S. publisher wanted to change the drawings, but the rights holder, Hachette France, refused to allow anything but minor cosmetic alterations. – Publishers Weekly

WORDS Published: 08.19.20

Read the story in Publishers Weekly Published: 08.19.20

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