Asterix in Corsica

Albert Uderzo, born in 1927, became an assistant illustrator at a Parisian publishing house in 1941. In 1945, he contributed to the production of an animated film for the first time, and a year later, he created his first comic strips, became a scriptwriter, and soon began producing self-contained comic series. During this time, he created works such as "Belloy, Knight Without Armor" (for the magazine OK) and "Crime Does Not Pay" (for the newspaper France-Soir). Uderzo became a collaborator at a Belgian agency in Paris, where he met Jean-Michel Charlier and René Goscinny in 1951. With Charlier, Uderzo worked on "Belloy," "Tanguy," and "Laverdure," while his collaboration with Goscinny initially produced "Pitt Pistol" and "The Incredible Corsair," followed by "Luc Junior" (for La Libre Belgique), "Benjamin and Benjamine" (for "Top Magazin"), and "Umpah-Pah" (for "Tintin"). In 1959, Uderzo and Goscinny founded their own magazine called "Pilot." The crowning achievement of their collaboration was the creation of "Asterix the Gaul." In June 2004, Albert Uderzo received the Max and Moritz Prize from the Comic Salon Erlangen for his outstanding lifetime achievement.

In 45 years since the first publication in Germany, Asterix undergoes its first major revision. With meticulous attention to detail, all 34 Asterix albums have been uniformly colored, and the speech bubbles have been re-lettered. The cover designs have been carefully modified, with some covers even redrawn by Asterix illustrator Albert Uderzo himself. This ensures that the great success of Asterix is ready for a new century and looks forward to a glorious future.