French designer and writer Didier Conrad poses after a press conference in Paris on October 2, 2013, for the release of the new album "Asterix chez les Pictes" (Asterix and the Picts), new adventures of Asterix, a diminutive moustachioed warrior battling the Roman occupation of his native Gaul, or ancient France. Conrad participates with French cartoonist and author Albert Uderzo, to the book. AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAY