![]() ![]() And so an expedition sets out into the cold. Caesar intends to capture the griffin for his circus games because "such a monster makes me popular with the crowds." The Romans had learned about the griffin's existence from a Sarmatian amazon they had captured. The mystical griffin, a hybrid eagle/lion/horse creature, lures the Romans onto the scene. "And I made them into people who worship the griffin." Asterix and The Griffin, the most recent Asterix comic book Image: Hugendubel And, finally, I created this Griffin story, which is completely made up." Mysticism merges with realityīrowsing through history books led him to the Sarmatians, a warlike nomadic people who lived in what is now Russia, the author says. ![]() "I decided on the East, and at first I had in mind a story that parodied the Cold War a bit. "When I started the book, I asked myself what actually remained as a country where I could send them," said author Jean-Yves Ferri in an interview with DW. In Asterix and The Griffin, author Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrator Didier Conrad send them to a cold region, Sarmatia on the far edge of Europe - completely new territory for our Gallic friends. Freezing cold, a fearsome mythological beast, strong female warriors, and not to mention the Romans - they're all part of the new comic, along with the tried-and-true protagonists: Gauls Asterix, Obelix and Getafix. ![]()
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