Une aventure d'Astérix

Albert Uderzo, born in 1927, became an assistant illustrator at a Parisian publishing house in 1941. In 1945, he helped produce a cartoon for the first time, and a year later, he drew his first comic strips, became a screenwriter, and soon created self-contained comic series. During this time, he worked on "Belloy, Knight without Armor" (for the magazine OK) and "Crime Doesn't Pay" (for the newspaper France-Soir), among others. Uderzo became an employee of a Belgian agency in Paris, where he met Jean-Michel Charlier and René Goscinny in 1951. With Charlier, Uderzo created "Belloy," "Tanguy," and "Laverdure," while 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 Magazine), 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. René Goscinny, born in 1926 in Paris, grew up in Buenos Aires and initially worked as an assistant accountant and later as an illustrator in an advertising agency after finishing 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 art 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 many humorous articles, books, and scripts for comics. René Goscinny passed away in 1977.