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Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover
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Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…

Contributor:

René Goscinny

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1959

Subjects:

Comics, Print, Humor

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Cartooning & graphic art
Comic strip featuring a title and heading across the top in French, and eight panels of comics below. The comics portray warriors, a man against several opponents, two warriors, a stylized map of France, a map of enemy tents, a warrior on a chair interrupted by a boy, two warriors talking, and four warriors talking while hiding behind a tree.
“Le people juif . . . sur de lui-même et dominateur . . .” (“The Jews, a People Sure of Itself and Domineering, . . .” Charles de Gaulle)
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Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…

Contributor:

Tim (Louis Mitelberg)

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Date:

1967

Subjects:

Comics, Politics, Satire, Holocaust, War

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Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of full body profile of man behind barbed wire with foot propped on wire, dressed in prisoner uniform with Star of David badge on breast and right hand tucked in uniform.