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Albert Uderzo, born in 1927, became an assistant illustrator at a Paris publishing house in 1941. In 1945, he helped produce an animated film for the first time, and a year later, he created his first comic strips, became a scriptwriter, and soon developed self-contained comic series. During this time, he produced 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 created "Belloy," "Tanguy," and "Laverdure," and with Goscinny, he initially worked on "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 Comic Salon Erlangen in June 2004 for his outstanding lifetime achievement. René Goscinny, born in 1926 in Paris, grew up in Buenos Aires and initially worked as an assistant accountant and later as an illustrator at an advertising agency after graduating from high school. In 1945, Goscinny emigrated to New York. In 1946, he had to return to France to complete his military service. Back in the USA, he worked again as an illustrator and then as an artistic director at a children's book publisher. During a trip to France, Goscinny was hired by a Franco-Belgian press agency, which sent him to New York twice as a correspondent. He gave up drawing and began writing. He created numerous humorous articles, books, and scripts for comics. René Goscinny passed away in 1977.