By Tom Grater International Film Reporter Albert Uderzo, the famed French comic book artist, has died at the age of 92. French wire AFP reported that Uderzo had a heart attack and his death was not coronavirus related. “Albert Uderzo died in his sleep at his home in Neuilly, after a heart attack that was not linked to the coronavirus.
He had been extremely tired for the past several weeks,” his son-in-law Bernard de Choisy told the agency. The illustrator created the Asterix comic book series with René Goscinny after they met in 1951.
Eight years later, the duo became editor (Goscinny) and artistic director (Uderzo) of the French magazine Pilote, and it was in those pages that they first introduced Asterix, the titular Gaulish warrior who
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