by René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo · Hodder Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340227107
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«Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield» is the humorous adventure comic by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, published by Hodder Children's Books in paperback (48 pages, in English).
After leaving Chief Vitalstatistix to recover in a health centre on boiled vegetables, Asterix and Obelix seek more substantial food. Meanwhile, in Rome, Julius Caesar plans to teach the Gauls a lesson and aims to find Vercingetorix's shield, a symbol of Gallic resistance that must remain hidden at all costs.
This adventure belongs to the classic Asterix series, originally published in 1967 as «Le bouclier Arverne»; this English edition corresponds to volume 18 of the collection.
Recommended for readers who want to follow the classic Asterix adventures in their original English edition.
René Goscinny was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Asterix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spent his childhood in Argentina where he attended French schools and later lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist Morris. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series Lucky Luke.
