Alix
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Alix |
 | |
| Bust of Alix on the grave of Jacques Martin in Céroux (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) | |
| country | Belgium |
| author |
Jacques Martin François Maingoval Patrick Weber Marco Venanzi Michel Lafon François Corteggiani Géraldine Ranouil Mathieu Breda Pierre Valmour David B. |
| Illustrator |
Jacques Martin Rafael Morales Cédric Hervan Christophe Simon Ferry Marco Venanzi Marc Jailloux Giorgio Albertini |
| publishing company | Lombard |
| magazine | Tintin |
| First publication | 1948 - ... |
Alix (original title: Alix ) is the title character of the Franco-Belgian comic series of the same name , which Jacques Martin began in 1948 in the Belgian comic magazine Tintin . As one of the few series from this period, it continues to this day. Since 1956, more than seven million albums have been sold.
action
Alix Graccus is the son of a Gallic chief who comes as a slave via the Orient to Rome, where he is adopted by Honorus Galla Graccus because of his bravery. In the favor of Caesar, he is chosen for missions that take him to the limits of the known world. On his travels he is accompanied by the young Egyptian Enak. He fights the intrigues of the devious Arbaces and his brother Adrocles several times.
background
Jacques Martin wrote and sketched the adventure series. His successors as draftsmen were Rafael Morales , Cédric Hervan , Christophe Simon , Ferry , Marco Venanzi and Marc Jailloux . François Maingoval , Patrick Weber , Marco Venanzi, Michel Lafon , François Corteggiani and Géraldine Ranouil were responsible for the text .
The series appeared between 1948 and 1980 in the Belgian and from 1948 to 1985 in the French edition of Tintin . Le Lombard began publishing albums in 1956, which Casterman continued in 1965 . Carlsen and Feest released some of the albums in German-speaking countries. Feest followed up the first two episodes in the Adventure Classics series . Casterman and Kult reissued. A complete edition of the series has been published by Egmont Ehapa Verlag since 2017.
The sequel series Alix Senator has been published by Splitter Verlag since 2013 .
Stories
| No. | title | year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alix the Bold | 1948/49 |
| 2 | The golden sphinx | 1949/51 |
| 3 | The cursed island | 1951/52 |
| 4th | The oribal's tiara | 1955/56 |
| 5 | The black claw | 1957/59 |
| 6th | The lost legions | 1962/63 |
| 7th | The last Spartan | 1966/67 |
| 8th | The Etruscan tomb | 1967/68 |
| 9 | The angry god | 1969 |
| 10 | Iorix the great | 1971/72 |
| 11 | The Prince of the Nile | 1973 |
| 12 | The son of Spartacus | 1974/75 |
| 13 | The spirit of Carthage | 1976/77 |
| 14th | In the mouth of the volcano | 1977/78 |
| 15th | The Greek boy | 1979/80 |
| 16 | The Tower of Babel | 1981 |
| 17th | The Emperor of China | 1982/83 |
| 18th | Vercingetorix | 1985 |
| 19th | The Trojan horse | 1988 |
| 20th | O Alexandria | 1996 |
| 21st | The barbarians | 1998 |
| 22nd | The fall of Icarus | 2001 |
| 23 | The Jade River | 2003 |
| 24 | Roma, Roma ... | 2005 |
| 25th | It was in Khorsabad | 2006 |
| 26th | The Iberian | 2007 |
| 27 | Le demon du Pharos | 2008 |
| 28 | La Cité engloutie | 2009 |
| 29 | Le Testament de César | 2010 |
| 30th | La Conjuration de Baal | 2011 |
| 31 | L'Ombre de Sarapis | 2012 |
| 32 | La Dernière Conquête | 2013 |
| 33 | Britannia | 2014 |
| 34 | Par-delà le Styx | 2015 |
| 35 | L'Or de Saturne | 2016 |
| 36 | Le Serment du gladiateur | 2017 |
| 37 | Veni Vidi Vici | 2018 |
reception
For Marcel Feige , Alix is "a milestone in Franco-Belgian comic history" despite "the immense text-heaviness [...]." According to Franco Fossati , “the author not only succeeded in conjuring up the political and military realities of that era”, he also “reproduces everyday life with just as much detail as it is vivid”. On the one hand, Andreas C. Knigge emphasizes the attention to detail and Martin's efforts to achieve the greatest possible historical authenticity. On the other hand, Knigge, in his book Sex in Comic, uses the comic as an example of the portrayal of latent homosexuality due to the girlish appearance of Enak and the dependency relationship between Enak and Alix with simultaneous misogyny of the title character . Together with Achim Schnurrer , Knigge even claims that “Martin’s fears of the female sex [...] are reflected in the dreams of his hero”. Referring to the ancient sees Harald Havas in Alix , the "most famous [...] Series".
literature
- Patrick Gaumer : Dictionnaire mondial de la BD . Larousse, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-03584-331-9 .
Web links
- Alix on lejournaldetintin.free.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alix (1948–1980) in Tintin (Belgium) on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Alix (1948–1985) in Tintin (France) on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Alix on bedetheque.com (French)
- ↑ Alix (1974–1989) on comicguide.de
- ↑ Alix (1988–1989) in Adventure Classics (2–3) at Feest on comicguide.de
- ↑ Alix (1998–) on comicguide.de
- ^ Alix GA . In: Comicforum - Sponsored by Carlsen, ECC, Egmont Manga and Tokyopop . ( comicforum.de [accessed on April 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Alix Senator Vol. 1: The bloody wings. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 43.
- ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 12.
- ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 191.
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , pp. 243-244.
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge, Achim Schnurrer: Bilderfrauen, Frauenbilder. An annotated photo documentation about the image of the woman in the comic . Hannover 1979, ISBN 3-88464-010-0 , p. 30.
- ↑ Harald Havas: Comic Worlds. History and structure of the ninth art . Edition Comic Forum 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 110.