Asterix Controversy
For years fans accused the series of plagiarism, referencing its similarities to the series Asterix. The titles share a similar art style, character designs, and even employ similar jokes. While the related series Kajtek and Koko had debuted years before Asterix's first publication, the characters' incarnations as Slavic warriors Kajko and Kokosz post-dated Asterix's success. For years Christa maintained that the similarities where a coincidence, but in interviews decades later cited Asterix as one of his inspirations. Some have described as significant the fact that the last "Kajko and Kokosz" book was published the same year as the first Polish translation of an Asterix book appeared.
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