Asterix and the Class Act Obelix wearing plus-fours (a put-on of Tintin), much to Asterix and Obelix's fury. For the honour of Gaul, Asterix and Obelix help Lutetia (ancient Paris) win the chance to host the ancient Olympic Games by acting as security for the event. Asterix helps a tiny anthropomorphic personification of Spring overcome Winter. Some unlucky Romans try to take Dogmatix as their "lucky" mascot, and are later defeated by him. A joke on modern French anxiety over the bastardization of the French language (cf. Franglais) shows the Gauls using Latin loanwords. The authors find a modern descendant of Obelix. A brainstorming session
Comic book characters. Balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction. Key tasks in the creation of comic books are writing, drawing, and coloring. Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck" in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. Proto-comics periodicals began appearing early in the 20th century, with historians generally citing Dell Publishing's 36-page "Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics" as the first true