Asterix in Corsica

Albert Uderzo, born in 1927, became a junior illustrator at a Parisian publishing house in 1941. In 1945, he assisted for the first time in the production of an animated film, and a year later, he created his first comic strips, became a scriptwriter, and soon also produced 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 an employee of 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," and with Goscinny, he initially created "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 was the creation of "Asterix the Gaul." Albert Uderzo received the Max and Moritz Prize from the Erlangen Comic Salon in June 2004 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 were uniformly colored and the speech bubbles were re-lettered. The cover design was carefully modified, with some covers even redrawn personally by Asterix illustrator Albert Uderzo. This prepares the great success of Asterix for a new century and promises a glorious future.