The books are narrated from the perspective
of Dogmatix, with big text and simplistic storylines. Although
the names of Goscinny and Uderzo appear up on the cover it
appears neither of them much involvement with the books. The
illustrations are not drawn in an Uderzo style and appear
very cartoonish. The books were all published by Hodder Causton
and translated by Frances Verner (interesting because all
other Asterix works were translated into English by Anthea
Bell and Derek Hockridge).
The stories also make simple mistakes which
contradict the official Asterix stories. For instance, in
"Dogmatix and the Storm" it says that "Obelix's
cousin from Brittany arrived on our doorstep" (no
such person is known to exist) while the picture shows Anticlimax
- Asterix's cousin from Britain.
These stories will entertain younger readers
but for Adult Asterix fans they are purely for collecting
purposes. All the books are very rare and hard to find.
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- Title: Dogmatix
the Athlete
- English Release: 1973
- Plot: Getafix is one of the
judges of a dog show. One of the dogs is Brutus, a
nasty roman dog who is a bully and who picks on a
baby wild boar. Dogmatix goes to help the wild boar
and Brutus turns on him, only to be saved when the
dad of the baby boar turns up. Dogmatix enters the
dog show and with a drop of Asterix's magic potion
manages to do really. The last event is to herd up
some wild boar. Because Brutus had been mean to the
baby boar all the boar refuse to help him and run
all over the place. Instead the boar decide to help
Dogmatix, because he'd been nice to the baby boar,
and Dogmatix ends up winning the competition.
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- Title: Dogmatix
makes a Friend
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Dogmatix and a strange
Dog have a fight when the dog starts chasing the hen
Mrs Cluck because she laughed at him. Will the two
dogs settle their differences?
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- Title: Dogmatix
and the Boar Hunt
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Dogmatix joins in a
wild boar hunt. He and some other dogs track down
a baby boar and Dogmatix gets to the baby boar first.
But having caught the baby boar Dogmatix realises
its only a baby who is scared. He therefore tells
the baby to hide and runs off in another direction
leading the other dogs away from the baby and allowing
it to escape. When the other dogs realise Dogmatix
has tricked them they are unhappy and shout at Dogmatix.
But Dogmatix explains his reasons and they all end
up being friends.
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Thanks to Buzz-Bumble
for the Image
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- Title: Dogmatix and the Storm
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Obelix's cousin comes
to visit. The cousin brings with him a small boy,
Demonix. Demonix is a bully and cruel to Dogmatix.
Eventually Demonix and Dogmatix go for a boat ride,
but a storm brews up and they end up stranded on an
island. Dogmatix jumps into the sea and swims to get
help. Sure enough Dogmatix alerts the villagers who
rescue Demonix. But the trauma of the storm has changed
him and Demonix becomes nice and stops playing pranks.
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- Title: The Well
Deserved Tea Party
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Unknown
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- Title: Dogmatix and the Parrot
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: A ship is wrecked in
a storm. The villagers go to help and Dogmatix rescues
a parot from the sea. The parrot is a talking parrot
who likes to play tricks by imitating people. Eventually
the villagers get fed up and eventually give one of
the sailors a new boat so he can take the parrot away.
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- Title: The Crazy
Chase
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Pandemonia is the niece
of Vitalstatistix. She is meant to stay with her uncle
and aunt but they ask Asterix and Obelix to look after
her instead. Whilst no one is looking Pandemonia slips
out of the house and manages to let a calf and a piglet
out of their pen. Everyone chases after the animals
and the calf is caught, but the piglet isn't. Dogmatix
and Pandemonia chase after the piglet into the forest
only to end up finding themselves chased by a fox!
Pandemonia, Dogmatix and the piglet run into a cave
and pull a rock over the entrace so the fox can't
get in, but they can't get out. When everyone realises
they are missing the whole village goes looking for
the trio with Obelix eventually finding them and rescusing
them from the fox.
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- Title: Dogmatix
at the Circus
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: A circus comes to town,
with lots of different acts and animals. Dogmatix
meets up with a dog from the circus who tells him
how exciting it is to be a star in the circus. Dogmatix
runs away to join the circus and hides from Obelix
when he goes looking for Dogmatix. However just as
the circus is due to leave town Dogmatix sees Obelix
looking really sad. He realises he can't leave his
old friend and runs to him
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- Title: Dogmatix
and the Lost Fish
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Asterix, Obelix &
Dogmatix go to the seaside for a holiday. Meanwhile
in the sea a father fish goes off to work whilst the
mother fish goes shopping. They tell their son fish
not to go too near the shore, but he does and a big
wave washes him onto the beach. Dogmatix finds the
young fish and fetches Asterix who gets a bucket to
keep the fish alive. Obelix thinks Asterix and Dogmatix
have caught the fish to eat. But Dogmatix's barking
tells him "no". Dogmatix guards the fish
and when he is better Asterix, Obelix & Dogmatix
release him back to the sea.
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- Title: Dogmatix
and the Little Girl
- English Release: 1974
- Plot: Obelix goes to a market
to buy a new pair of trousers. Whilst Obelix is off
in the market a little girl sees Dogmatix and tells
her servant she wants him. The servant picks up Dogmatix
where he is taken back to their home. Here Dogmatix
is forced to pull a cart behind him whilst the girl
rides in the cart. Eventually Obelix realises he has
lost Dogmatix and looks for him. Hearing him calling,
Dogmatix runs out of the little girls house into Obelix's
arms.
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A huge thankyou
to Noel for sending in the plot summaries for
most of these books!
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There were four further Dogmatix books in
this series that were printed in France but do not appear
to have been translated into English. If you have any information
on these books in English please contact
me.
