(Recording) Uderzo told French radio that Astrix was born when the owner of a French magazine called Pilote wanted a comic strip his kids could read that represented French culture.
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When they readcomic books, they envision themselves as caped crusaders.
First I readcomic books, then adventure books, a few romantic novels, the Spanish literature she was studying at school, as well as the Catalan, Manelic and the wolf, and all that.