Well, for changing "Getafix" back to "Panoramix", I assumed it was because of the drug connotations. ("This is America! We have an opioid crisis! You can't keep calling the druid 'Getafix'!")

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on Today at 04:31:06 PM(I wanted to add, tho, that the depictions of black people in these early Asterix books are pretty...well, racist. Hopefully they moved away from that as the series went on. These new American editions have a disclaimer that just says they are presenting it as originally drawn, but not mentioning why there's a need to even state that.)

Unfortunately, the broad racial caricatures remained at least until the mid-80s (and don't get me started about the Jewish caricatures in _Asterix in the land of black gold_). At least in the English translations, though, black characters eventually started talking normally rather than in what Frank Zappa would have called "comedy negrocious dialect". What can you say, it's France.

I didn't know they got a new translation, though, among professional translators the Bell/Hockridge translations are renowned for being examples of top-quality cross-cultural translations of humour; will have to check that out. But you can get weird about "accessibility for the kids". There is a French film called La Haine (1995) about kids from a deprived suburb getting up to mischief in Paris. They go to the house of a drug dealer who is a small skinny guy they call "Asterix". In the original American dub, they changed that to "Charlie Brown" because they didn't think US kids would get the reference.

(I have no idea what modern translations would do with, for example, references to The Beatles in _Asterix in Britain_, or the way that the main antagonist in _Obelix & Co_ is a caricature of Jacques Chirac.)

(I wanted to add, tho, that the depictions of black people in these early Asterix books are pretty...well, racist. Hopefully they moved away from that as the series went on. These new American editions have a disclaimer that just says they are presenting it as originally drawn, but not mentioning why there's a need to even state that.)

Quote from: Ián Tamorán S.H. on Today at 06:43:15 AMI love Asterix! The English translations are wonderful - and all the better when you read the (original) French, which contains just as many puns and wordplays as the English. I giggle at both versions - excellent.
Come on, US - read Asterix!  :)

These books I got contain brand new English translations... in Volume One, it says "The previous excellent English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge were wonderful, but our goal is to help make Asterix as accessible as possible to new generations here in the USA, while maintaining everything that made Asterix great in the first place."
I no longer possess my copies of those Bell/Hockridge editions, so I can't compare them to the new, "Americanized" translation. I do notice that they've changed Getafix back to Panoramix (which I understand was his name in the original French version), and there are footnotes supplying translations for all the Latin phrases used throughout the series. (Because they don't teach Latin as a required course in American schools.)
I'm trying to do a minuscule part in spreading the glory of Asterix, I've got my wife reading volume one, and hope to introduce them to the grandkids sometime soon.
Oddly enough, I discovered Asterix in England! I went on a school trip to England and Scotland as a kid. I was already a comic book fanatic by then. It was in the gift shop of the British Museum that I saw these interesting looking books on the shelf. I bought four or five of them, and absolutely loved them. I'm glad they are more easily available in the USA now. (Typical me behavior, I go on a trip overseas, and instead of buying more normal souvenirs, I come home with a bunch of comics!)

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