With the loss of Goscinny, Uderzo hesitated to continue the story of the Gaulish village alone.Before his death, Goscinny was working on a last adventure, the draft of which he left behind, called Asterix in the Circus.The rabbit is a reference to the nickname given by Goscinny’s wife to her husband. He took the opportunity to pay tribute to his colleague in the last panel of the album with a rabbit that leaves crying. But faced with pressure from the publishers, Uderzo completed the 8 missing pages of the script. The cartoonist insisted on respecting his friend’s last wishes. The scriptwriter asked Uderzo not to finish the album. Before his death, Goscinny was in dispute with Dargaud, his publisher at the time. And it was almost the last adventure of the warrior. Asterix in Belgium (1979) was the last book in which Goscinny was able to participate.The latter took on this task until the twenty-fourth volume of the Gaul’s adventures, Asterix in Belgium (1979). He entrusts the colouring of Asterix to his brother Marcel Uderzo. After colouring a horse green, Albert Uderzo realised that he was colour-blind.His drawing can be found on page 35 of the first volume. Due to lack of time, he entrusted the task to his brother Marcel Uderzo. And it is the only comic strip from the Goscinny-Uderzo era that has a panel not produced by Albert Uderzo. As for the first Asterix album, only 6000 copies were published.
In fact, Uderzo inserted the two artists as Roman legionaries in Obelix and Company (1976). Both actors are among the creators’ influences. Asterix and Obelix are inspired by the actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.For the occasion, the book was translated into Corsican and gave birth to the character with the longest surname in the series, Chief Ocatarinabellatchitchix. The last Asterix pre-published in Pilote magazine was Asterix in Corsica (1973).The first issue of the newspaper sold 300,000 copies. Before appearing in album form for the first time in October 1961, the adventures of Asterix the Gaul were pre-published by episode in the first 38 issues of the weekly magazine Pilote (29 October 1959 to 14 July 1960).He was imagined during a summer evening that same year in a Bobigny HLM where, according to Uderzo, the creators had consumed “a lot of pastis and cigarettes”. The irreducible Gaul, created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, made his first appearance for the launch of Pilote magazine on 29 October 1959.© Alexandre Mistretta – franceinfo Culture / Translation © J 2S Between his historical references, his humour that has become a cult and his truculent characters, the famous Gaul continues, year after year, to build an empire that is more or less well known by all generations.īefore diving into his new epic, here are 39 things you need to know about Asterix, his fathers and his colourful universe, by Toutatis! In this new adventure, the little moustachioed man born more than 60 years ago will travel to the heart of Eastern Europe to meet the Sarmatians, a little-known people who really existed. The release of an Asterix album is always an event in France and in the world of comics, and the release of the 39th album in the saga, Asterix and the Griffin, is once again highly anticipated.
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