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"Making a living through comics was extremely hard in those days, I drew an astronomical amount of pages just to get through the month," he recalled. Uderzo was born April 25, 1927, in Fismes, a village in northeast France near Reims, to Italian immigrants.Īt birth he had six fingers on each hand - an anomaly corrected by surgery - and was colourblind, yet he discovered drawing after joining a Parisian publishing house after World War II, while also providing comic drawings for newspapers.
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They have been translated into 111 languages and dialects, including Latin and Ancient Greek.
#Astérix et obélix series#
The pun-filled series is brimming with fist-fights, drunken arguments, heroic rescues and romantic interludes, and the stories often include not-so-subtle references to politicians or popular figures of the day. After an absence of eight years, "Asterix chez les Pictes" was the latest in the series of comic books created by illustrator Albert Uderzo and writer Rene Goscinny in 1959 that have millions copies worldwide. A woman poses with the new comic book "Asterix chez les Pictes" (Asterix and the Picts), written by French author Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad, in front of a bookstore in Paris October 24, 2013.