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René Goscinny, born in 1926 in Paris, grew up in Buenos Aires and initially worked as an assistant accountant after graduating high school, later becoming an illustrator at an advertising agency. In 1945, Goscinny emigrated to New York. In 1946, he had to return to France to fulfill 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 twice as a correspondent to New York. He gave up drawing and began writing. He created numerous humorous articles, books, and scripts for comics. René Goscinny passed away in 1977.

Albert Uderzo, born in 1927, became a junior 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 drew his first comic strips, became a scriptwriter, and soon created 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 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," and with Goscinny, he initially worked on "Pitt Pistol" and "The Incredible Corsair." Later, he produced "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.