Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo dies aged 92
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Uderzo and writer Renee Goscinny created Asterix in 1959, with the character first appearing in a children's magazine. Two years later the first standalone Asterix album – Asterix the Gaul – appeared. The pair went on to produce another 25 volumes together, most of them bestsellers that comfortably shifted a million copies.
Asterix is comfortably France's premier popular literary cultural export. It's been filmed 14 times, translated into over 100 languages, turned into at least 40 video games and is the subject of a French theme park. Various sources suggest the books have sold more than 370 million copies.
Uderzo was probably the last great artist who produced comics for everybody. Comics which made all ages laugh in all nations. It's such a huge loss.