“Grawlixes”: More than just a euphemistic way to $*%@&! in comics

The strange life and theory of emanata in comics art

From: Asterix and the Goths (1963) by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.

I distinctly remember being about eight years old and reading a set of panels in Asterix and the Goths which absolutely blew my mind.

In one panel, the druid Getafix, who has been kidnapped and bound like a package is required to be unpacked…