It will be the best selling comic book of 2017. The last volume sold over five million. And today we get the name of the new book.

Asterix And The Race Through Italy.

After Asterix and the Picts and Asterix and the Missing Scroll, Asterix and Obelix are back with Asterix and the Race Through Italy, the new album created by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad. Unfortunately for Obelix, the inhabitants of Ancient Italy are not all Romans. The Italics want to keep their independence and take a dim view of Julius Caesar and his Legions' plans for total domination. In Asterix and the RACE through ITALY, our heroes will embark on an exciting adventure to explore the fascinating world of Ancient Italy.





And it's a broadening of the concept of Ancient Italy that's behind this scenario. "Italy is so much more than Caesar, Rome and the Coliseum." explain

Didier Conrad and Jean-Yves Ferri. "We realised that it was finally time for Asterix and Obelix to find out what Italy was really like. And we were sure Albert Uderzo would approve, as his family is originally from Venice."

Out, worldwide on 19th October with a first print run of four million copies.