308. Asterix and Obelix, Babar The Elephant, & Colonial Cartoons
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnins. And me, William Durrple. In our writers series, we have been talking about writers of Empire. We brought you some really hefty names there. Orwell, Conrad, but in the next
couple of episodes, we're gonna flatten the subject, hopefully not the mood, because we're gonna look at the 2D, the comic books, the graphic novels for many of us, our first inkling that the world is much bigger than we know. And we're going to be talking about wonderful, wonderful books like Asterix and Obelix, Baba the Elephant and Tintin and Snowy, and just even thinking of those names and looking at the picture of Obelix with his enormous trousers and Baba with his little crown in his head and is wonderful. wonderful green suit or snowy with a bone in his mouth just takes you straight back to when you were seven or eight and first had these comic books or your friends had the comic books and you had to beg them or give them a sweetie or something to get your hands on them. But of course they are all books with a deep root in the period of empire and they uh contain all manner of material which people today will find offensive and it's a complicated matter. And
It breaks my heart sort of seeing these wonderful books and comment about them anything except complete love. But uh anyway, that's what we're going to do on this episode. So we're going to drag William through the briars of looking at his childhood love affairs. No, I mean I love these books as well. Look, look, just for those who haven't maybe read the same things that we have read.
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