On Tuesday March 24, 2020, the comic book world was in mourning with the death of Albert Uderzo at the age of 92. A disappearance that greatly affected Anne Goscinny, daughter of the French screenwriter René Goscinny with whom the designer Uderzo had created Asterix. Asked at the microphoneEurope 1 about the death of her father's sidekick, Anne Goscinny said: "I remember the death of my father 42 years ago. I remember the dignity of Albert Uderzo when my father died. I lost a father, but he lost his best friend, his playmate and work companion." As the magazine reports Gala, the heiress told about Albert Uderzo: "I was also fascinated by the difference between my father and Albert, and the friendship I could perceive between them. It taught me early on that to be friends you sometimes have to be different and very complementary. "
"I will turn the pages of an Asterix album to hear Albert's laughter"
The novelist, who perpetuates his father's work since his death also returned to the French comic book series created on October 29, 1959 by his father and Uderzo. The adventures ofAsterix, are to date the most translated comic strip in the world, Albert Uderzo produced the drawings for thirty-two albums. "My father and Albert created more than a work, a myth. Asterix will outlive them both very long ", admitted René Goscinny's daughter. Anne Goscinny also added that to hear her father's voice, she only had to turn the pages of an Asterix album. To remember that of Uderzo, she said : "I'll do the same to hear Albert's laugh."
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