Asterix

Asterix is the story of a village of Gauls resisting Roman occupation by drink the magic potion that the village mage creates. Astrix is a fun loving rapscallion who spends his time having fun with the Romans and protecting his village. The drawing style reminds me of a lot of American comedy comics, the characters all drawn with a thick black line, with a thicker outline. It’s very flat and graphic, and the use of color throughout the comic, very flat and mostly very saturated colors, flatness the picture plane of each frame even more. Though the use of blocked out colors, usually a purple, did help create some depth in the frames as making the whole characters or objects that single darker color helped bring them forward in space. Through the technique of flat uses of color in this way, the artist who drew Asterix, Albert Uderzo, was able to achieve depth despite the fact that he was using only flat colors. The characters are appealing and fun cartoon characters, though they do have very stock, one dimensional personalities. Asterix is your typical cartoon protagonist, a trouble maker who always really means well, in this case protecting his village, and his best friend Obelix is the stock dumb strong sidekick.