{"id":39159,"date":"2024-11-29T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refonte-asterix.fr\/albert-uderzo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:27:21","slug":"albert-uderzo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/albert-uderzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Uderzo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Albert Uderzo<\/h1>\n

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As early as his nursery-school days, young Albert shows great drawing ability.
\nHe is completely self-taught, and his first vocation to be a clown develops into an irrepressible desire to draw, with an early attraction for Walt Disney heroes.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>Biography<\/h2>\n

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Birth of Albert Uderzo in Fismes (in the Marne d\u00e9partement in France).<\/p>\n

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1932<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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As early as his nursery-school days, young Albert shows great drawing ability.
\nHe is completely self-taught, and his first vocation to be a clown develops into an irrepressible desire to draw, with an early attraction for Walt Disney heroes.
\nFrom the age of ten, Albert Uderzo begins to sketch characters with big noses \u2026<\/p>\n

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1938<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The family moves a second time, from Clichy-sous-Bois to the Rue de Montreuil, in the 11th district in Paris.
\nFor a while Albert thinks about becoming an aircraft mechanic and passes the entrance exam to the French Engineering School before the Second World War breaks out.<\/p>\n

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His brother Bruno then goes to Brittany and asks him to join him at Les Villages (in the C\u00f4tes-d\u2019Armor d\u00e9partement), near Saint-Brieuc.
\nAlbert likes the area, but because of the war he has to return to Paris, where he helps his father, a machine operator working with wood.
\nWith the Liberation of France, Albert tries his hand at cartoons, works for several magazines, and creates or draws new heroes such as Flamberge, Clopinard, Zartan, Zidore, Arys Buck, Prince Rollin and Belloy (the Invulnerable).
\nThese characters begin a long series of pumped-up heroes with huge bulging muscles, the type of figure that Albert is particularly fond of.<\/p>\n

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1947<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Then he does a spell in the army, in Tyrol.
\nWhen he returns, he becomes a reporter-illustrator for \u201cFrance Dimanche\u201d and works for two news agencies, small concerns modestly called World Press and International Press. There, among other great names in the cartoon world, he meets Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon.<\/p>\n

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1951<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Soon another person is to cross his path \u2026
\nOne fine morning in 1951, Albert Uderzo, who is working for World Press\/International Press, is told that someone new, called \u2018Gossini\u2019 is coming to join them. When Albert hears this name, his Italian roots get all excited. But he learns that \u201cNo, his name is spelt G.o.s.c.i.n.n.y. He\u2019s French and he\u2019s moving here from the United States.\u201d
\nThe two hit it off immediately, and are to work on numerous joint projects. The partnership results in many heroes, including Oompah-Pah, whom many see as a precursor to Asterix.<\/p>\n

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Uderzo and Goscinny then play an active part alongside Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean H\u00e9brard to create the companies called Edipresse (news agency) and Edifrance (advertising agency), which at last give them the opportunity to express themselves independently. There follow several difficult years when the two try out various jobs, but this period is nonetheless extremely fertile in terms of projects and ideas.
\nAt the time, to earn a living, Albert Uderzo goes so far as to produce nine plates in a week, a colossal amount of work. Sometimes, for lack of time, he skips the sketches and does his drawings directly in ink.<\/p>\n

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1959<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Then an important project monopolises our two friends\u2019 time: to create a magazine called Pilote, in conjunction with Fran\u00e7ois Clauteaux, who will be the editor, Albert and Ren\u00e9 look for a typically French hero. The decision is made and they choose the Romance of Renart.
\nHowever, they are quickly told that the project is already under way, initiated by Jean Trubert. So their idea won\u2019t work and they have to find another one. After exploring the historical ages of France, Albert and Ren\u00e9 agree on Gaul and the Gauls.
\nAnd so, on 29 October 1959, the FIRST issue of Pilote presents its captivated readers with the first plate of the Adventures of Asterix the Gaul, on page 20. The magazine is an immediate success: more than 300,000 copies sold!
\nPilote (with its slogan, \u2018wow, what a magazine!\u2019) has its hour of glory. Many a young reader grows up with it.
\nThen it experiences a few ups and downs and our two friends hand over in 1960, only to come back in 1963. At the time Ren\u00e9 Goscinny works on numerous comic strips \u2013 Asterix, of course, as well as Iznogoud (Tabary), Little Nicholas (Semp\u00e9), Lucky Luke (Morris), Valentin (Tabary), The Dingodossiers (Gotlib), and more.<\/p>\n

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1968<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The two authors continue some of the series for a while, either working together or on their own. However, from the \u201cAsterix and the Chieftain\u2019s Shield\u201d album onwards, Albert Uderzo decides to devote himself exclusively to the little Gaulish hero and abandons his other characters.<\/p>\n

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1977<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Asterix becomes a major French comic strip hero, with his popularity increasing album by album.
\nHe brings great happiness to Albert and Ren\u00e9, who by now have also founded a cartoon film studio, called Studio Id\u00e9fix. However, misfortune is just around the corner.
\nThe awful news comes on 5 November 1977: Ren\u00e9 Goscinny dies during an exercise stress test for a medical check-up. He was 51. The shock is terrible. \u201cAsterix in Belgium\u201d is up to plate 37.<\/p>\n

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1979<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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From then on Albert Uderzo continues the adventures of the Gaulish hero alone.
\nHe soon creates Les \u00c9ditions Albert Ren\u00e9 to publish new Asterix albums.<\/p>\n

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1980<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Launch of The Great Divide, the 25th Asterix album, the first to be written and drawn by Albert Uderzo alone.<\/p>\n

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1981-2005<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Launch of 8 new Asterix albums. Wiser for his friendship of 26 years\u2019 standing with Ren\u00e9 Goscinny, Albert Uderzo writes and draws new albums proving a tremendous success with the ever-increasing number of Asterix readers. In November 2002 is launched a special album, a de luxe edition of \u201cAsterix in Belgium\u201d, as a tribute to Ren\u00e9 Goscinny (only available in French).<\/p>\n

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2009<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In fifty years Asterix has become a publishing phenomenon. The figures speak for themselves: 34 adventures translated into 107 languages or dialects, 11 films, an Asterix leisure park, hundreds of by-products, and many other projects\u2026<\/p>\n

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24th March 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Albert Uderzo died at home in Neuilly. His virtuoso drawing had the same panache, whether it was in realist work or the more humorous style, that he brought to his unique graphic creations. He will influence illustrators for many years to come and will continue to dazzle and entertain millions of readers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” el_class=”contact-footer-row” el_id=”newsletter”][vc_column el_class=”contact-footer-col”]\n

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