Exactly fourty years after its 'birth' Asterix und das Atomkraftwerk is honoured with a poster-exhibition in Austria.
Asterix und das Atomkraftwerk was first created in Vienna in 1978 by cutting up existing Asterix comic books, rearranging selected panels and adding a new narrative into the speech bubbles. The story of the successful resistance of the Gaulish village that was declared a site for a nuclear power plant resonated with the anti-nuclear movement. Pirated copies were circulated in various German towns even before the first German edition was stopped through legal action by the copyright owners of the Asterix brand. The volume was translated and adapted to Dutch, French and various dialects Spanish, incl. Basque.
The PLAGE exhibition (in German) is based on the Laka publication Asterix und das Atomkraftwerk. Bibliographic Forensics of a German Underground Comic, researched by D. HR. Spennemann. Laka has one of the world largest collections of original material of the pirated comic in all languages, which was used for compiling the exhibition.