![]() The most recent, Astérix et la Fille de Vercingétorix ( Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter), published in the autumn of 2019, has sold 5 million copies. Since then, four more books have appeared, produced with loving care by Jean-Yves Ferri (words) and Didier Conrad (pictures). Eight more books followed until 2009, when he finally hung up his pen after 50 years with Astérix et le Livre d’Or (Asterix and Obelix’s Birthday: The Golden Book). ![]() Uderzo carried on, producing Le Grand Fossé (The Great Divide) in 1980, an allegorical tale (as most of the stories are) of the Berlin wall. Astérix chez les Belges (Asterix in Belgium, 1979) was almost complete and, not without hesitation, Uderzo finished off the work alone. The two men produced 24 books before Goscinny died, prematurely, in 1977. The first book, Astérix le Gaulois (Asterix the Gaul) appeared in 1961. ![]() Born in north-eastern France in 1927, the son of Italian immigrants, Uderzo first emerged as a young cartoonist in 1959 when he and the writer René Goscinny produced the first serialised adventures of Asterix for the magazine Pilote. ![]() Albert Uderzo, half of the team that created Asterix the Gaul, has died at the age of 92. ![]()
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