After replacing Jean-Yves Ferri on Asterix’s 40th album, The white irisPublished in 2023, Fabcaro returns with a new part. According to Ouest-France, the comic book author and novelist will once again be the screenwriter of the next Asterix album, scheduled for autumn 2025.
“It wasn’t planned, but yes, here we go again,” he told Ouest-France. At first they called me for a single album, replacing Jean-Yves Ferri, who wanted to work on his adventures with De Gaulle.”
“But Éditions Albert René told me that I might need more time and told me not to stop me from thinking about a new scenario,” he said.
“I’m closer to the end than the beginning.”
Famous for his comics. zai zai zai zaiPublished in 2015, Fabcaro was called in 2022 to write the 40th volume of the adventures of Asterix, replacing Jean-Yves Ferri, author of the previous five albums, who wanted to concentrate on his comic series dedicated to De Gaulle.
Released in October 2023, this new album, called The white iris It was a real success. It finished first in the book sales ranking in France last year, according to the ranking of the GfK institute to which it refers, with 1.54 million copies sold in two months.
“I expected to be shaken a little because it’s nothing to repeat this myth. But it was well received. I have the impression that I can almost make an Asterix,” says Fabcaro.
For this 41st volume, the scriptwriter will once again collaborate with designer Didier Conrad, whom Albert Uderzo had designated as his successor, and who has been working on the adventures of Asterix for seven albums. Fabcaro also confesses that he has already found the title of the new comic and that he already has the plot of the story.
“I’m closer to the end than the beginning. I have the plot, I know what’s happening and where I’m going. But I’m still making changes to the plot and refining things. We’re in the details of the cut, of the text that Didier draws Conrad, we go back and forth constantly and also with the editor,” he explains to Ouest-France.
And he added: “It is impossible to get away from the DNA of an Asterix. My obsession is to make a real Asterix. Not a Fabcaro or the revolution.”
Source: BFM TV
