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From: Tim Illingworth <tim@smofs.org>
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Subject: Re: AKICIF: The Shape of Asterix
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:29:07 -0400
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On 9/13/2024 7:42 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
> 
> I found a copy of Asterix I picked up on Free Comic Book Day a few
> years ago and wondered why I hadn't read it.
> 
> The answer is that I can't.
> 
> It was shrunk to fit American comic-book pages, and I can't see the
> letters without my needle-threading glasses, which are never in reach
> when the book is.
> 
> The pages have extra-wide top and bottom margins.  Metric paper is
> taller and narrower than American Customary paper -- the extra-wide
> margins should be on the sides.
> 
> So my question is:  What size and shape are European comic books?
> 
> 
Well, picking an original Asterix (et le chaudron, pub 1969) it appears 
to be some 298mm high by 226mm wide over hard covers. The paper is 
smaller: 290mm high by about 224mm wide. The printed area is about 245mm 
by 196mm.

Which is not any standard size I've met. At all.

Tim