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René Goscinny was born on August 14, 1926, in Paris (France).
Son of a Ukrainian mother and a Polish father, he spent much of his childhood in Argentina, where he arrived at the age of almost two.
He attended the French Lycée in Buenos Aires, distinguishing himself as a good student, actively collaborating in the Notre voix and Latin Quarter bulletins, where he published his first texts and drawings.
With the sudden death of his father, at Christmas 1942, the possibility of being admitted to Fine Arts was put aside, starting by working in advertising.
In 1945 he left for the USA with his mother, joining relatives living in New York, working in translations for an import-export company. It was in 1948 that he started as an assistant in a small drawing studio, where names that would later become famous pontificated, such as Harvey Kurtzman and other colleagues, who founded Mad magazine in 1952.
In 1950 he met Joseph Gillain (Jijé) and Maurice de Bévere (Morris) who, like him, were trying their luck in the country of every opportunity. From this meeting, several projects will be born and the chance to try his luck in Belgium and France.
Returning to Europe, he abandoned the expectation of succeeding in drawings, trusting to take advantage of his texts. He ended up meeting Albert Uderzo in 1951, in Paris, starting a complicity that would have its apogee with the creation of "Asterix", in 1959. Before that, he collaborated in several periodicals, such as Moustique and Spirou. In the latter he began his long collaboration with Morris, securing the scripts for Lucky Luke, a series created solo by the former, in 1949.
A conflict over the recognition of authors' rights eventually led Goscinny, Uderzo and Jean-Michel Charlier, also a screenwriter, to found Édipresse/Édifrance, an agency specializing in the communication press. Publications of a diverse nature were born there, multiplying the characters and collaborations with other authors.
In 1955 Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas) appeared, under illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé, published in Le Moustique, initially as a comic, then in Sud-Ouest and Pilote, in text and illustration versions. In 1956 he began his collaboration with the magazine Tintin, where Goscinny pontificated in different series, highlighting, the following year, the appearance of Spaghetti (with Dino Attanasio), Modeste and Pompon (with André Franquin) and Oumpah-Pah (Humpá-Pá in Portugal, with Albert Uderzo). Humpá-Pá, the friendly redskin, appeared in 1958, in a second version, after an unsuccessful experiment in 1951.
Goscinny, Uderzo and Charlier embarked on another joint adventure, when they created the magazine Pilote, in 1959, which strongly marked European comics in the following decade. Right in the inaugural issue appeared Asterix, the most famous of the various creations of Goscinny and Uderzo, which, in a few years, became a true phenomenon of popularity and a source of pride for the French Republic. Taking an emblematic moment in the history of France, the resistance to the Roman invader, and benefiting from arguments portentously written by Goscinny and a graphic register that was improved by Uderzo, the series multiplied the number of titles and editions abroad, especially in Europe, where its popularity has not stopped growing.
The authors were imposing a rhythm of two new albums per year, whose print runs were breaking successive records. However, Goscinny did not give up, his other series and creations, continuing to work for various authors and publications. After initial difficulties arose at Pilote, George Dargaud, an important French publisher, bought the magazine for a symbolic price. Goscinny and Charlier took over as editor-in-chief, and the magazine began to record significant increases in sales, while new talents such as Giraud, Mézières, Fred, Gotlib and Reiser emerged.
In January 1962, The Adventures of the Caliph Haroun El Poussah appeared in the first issue of Record magazine, a series later renamed The Adventures of Grand Vizier Iznogoud, given the extraordinary popularity that the usurper Grand Vizier (Iznogoud) began to enjoy. All because he "wants to be caliph instead of the caliph"!
In the early 70s, a reflection of May 68, he retired as editor-in-chief of his Pilote, contested by the younger authors, who intended to give another dynamic to the magazine, concentrating on his multiple creations. At that time, he founded, with Uderzo, Studio Idéfix, dedicated to the production of cartoons of his series and his own publishing house, Éditions Albert-René.
He died in his hometown on November 5, 1977, victim of a heart attack, at the height of his popularity, working at a frenetic pace, with a lot of energy, creativity and talent. His work, so vast that it is, gave rise to the Dictionnaire Goscinny (Goscinny Dictionary), published in 2003, a voluminous book in which all his works published in book/album form are pontificated, with its authors considering that another similar one would be needed referring to the stories that never left the pages of newspapers and magazines. The dozens of books published under his name, some with print runs of several million copies, have made him the most translated French author in the world.
His wife Gilberte (now deceased) and his daughter Anne instituted the René Goscinny Prize, which rewards young comic book writers and is awarded every year during the Angoulême Festival.