Money transactions with “Asterix”: How the Gauls do business
Published: Tuesday, Jan 30th 2024, 17:30
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Asterix and Obelix have been fighting with the Romans for 65 years. To mark the anniversary of the popular comic series "Asterix", Egmont Verlag is promising fans "plenty of reading fodder", according to a press release on Tuesday.
The special volume "Asterix: Pecunia non olet - Economy through the ages" kicks off on February 6. This fifth volume in a series of "Asterix" non-fiction books by Bernard-Pierre Molin aims to explain "in a way that is both well-founded and humorous" how money transactions in antiquity, trade through the ages and the economy of the present day work - using numerous illustrated examples from the world of the Gauls.
Even if Asterix had nothing to do with terms such as value added tax or gross domestic product, the subject of the economy is always present in his 40 adventures, with depictions such as the menhir trade, the copper cauldron full of coins, Swiss banks and Roman decadence.
New Asterix-themed monthly releases have been announced for 2024. These include many Idefix albums, the magazine "Asterix MAX", various dialect albums and a new complete edition of the "Edition Omnibus".
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