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Albert Uderzo
Albert Uderzo has charmed children for almost 60 years with his comic book creation, Asterix the Gaul, Tanguy and LAverdure, Oum-pah-pah etc...
The drawer of all thirty-three Asterix adventures and the story writer of the last eight books, was born on April 25th, 1927, as the son of Italian immigrants in France.
He made his first acquaintance with comics through 'Mickey Mouse', which was published in journal Le Pétit Parisien. In 1940, when he was only thirteen years old, Uderzo was employed by the Paris Publishing Society, where he learned the basics of the trade: designing text and letters, and editing photographs and he was only 18 years old when he drawn for a newspaper “France Dimanche”.
Over the years, Uderzo devoted himself more and more to 'Astérix', of which the first album of a long series appeared in 1959 in Pilote, the magazine for teenagers that he created with his friends Goscinny, Charlier and some others. In 1974, Goscinny and Uderzo found the Idéfix Studios. In 1977, unfortunately, René Goscinny died and Uderzo was to continue 'Astérix by himself, which he does to the present day.
Asterix is translated in 107 langages and dialects, and this is 325 000 albums in the world!
According to the UNESCO's Index Translationum, Uderzo is the 10th most often translated French language author, and the third most often translated French language comics author with René Goscinny and Hergé.
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