‘You cannot sit on the fence. This is the biggie,’ say organisers of the Lakes international festival, due to to take place on Friday
The indomitable Gaul Asterix is set to go head-to-head with quiffed cub reporter Tintin in what is being described as a “clash of the titans” at the Lakes international comic art festival.
Tintin expert Benoît Peeters, Lancaster University’s new visiting professor in graphic fiction and comic art, will be putting the case for creator Hergé, while Peter Kessler, the Bafta award-winning producer and author of The Complete Guide to Asterix, will be speaking up for René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo at the festival in Kendal, Cumbria, on Friday evening. With an online poll currently giving Asterix 63% of the vote and Tintin 31% (6% of respondents were apparently unable to decide between the characters), the Lakes festival’s organisers were clear that “you’re either an Asterix or a Tintin fan. You cannot sit on the fence. You have to choose. This is the biggie.”
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