Rene goscinny e albert uderzo biography
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Goscinny, René and Uderzo, Albert
Born August 14, 1926 (Paris, France)
Died November 5, 1977 (Paris, France)
French author
Born April 27, 1927 (Fismes, France)
French artist
"Cartoons, especially humorous cartoons, were not very good at the time [the late 1950s] in France. Our ambition was to really bring up the standards."
ALBERT UDERZO
In the years following the end of World War II (1939–45; war in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and their allied forces defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan), the French people wanted to recover from their country's occupation by the German Nazi forces and rebuild their national identity. In 1949, a law was passed in France to govern the types of characters acceptable in children's literature. It banned characters like Batman and Tarzan, who represented physical strength and perfection and were a reminder of the kinds of images used by the Nazis in their wartime propaganda. The law also tried to shield Fre
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René Goscinny
French comic book writer (1926–1977)
René Goscinny (French:[ʁəneɡɔsini], Polish:[ɡɔɕˈt͡ɕinnɨ]ⓘ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Astérixcomic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. He was raised primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schools, and he lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist Morris. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series Lucky Luke (in what was considered the series' golden age).[1]
He wrote Iznogoud with Jean Tabary. Goscinny also wrote a series of children's books known as Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicolas) illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé.
Early life
[edit]Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to Jewish immigrants from Poland.[2] His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from Warsaw, and Anna (Ha
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Asterix in Britain: Life and Work of René Goscinny
A major retrospective on the co-creator, with Albert Uderzo, of beloved Astérix books
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Jewish Museum London presents a major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of René Goscinny (1926-1977), the ingenious writer of beloved comics such as Astérix and Lucky Luke, an artist who revolutionised the genre and dissolved the divide between learned and popular culture.
Over 100 items gathered from around the world will be displayed for the first time together in the UK, including original artworks, scripts and storyboards as well as Goscinny’s own tools, sketchbooks and family photographs. The exhibition highlights this writer’s contribution to europeisk culture, at the same time as unearthing the substance of his Jewish heritage.
Born in Paris in 1926, Goscinny was a child of Jewish emigrants from Poland and Ukraine. He spent his childhood in Argentina, before moving to New York as a y