{"id":43209,"date":"2020-04-01T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=43209"},"modified":"2021-12-19T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T09:57:09","slug":"asterix-and-obelix-co-creator-albert-uderzo-dies-in-his-sleep-aged-92-at-his-home-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/asterix-and-obelix-co-creator-albert-uderzo-dies-in-his-sleep-aged-92-at-his-home-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Asterix and Obelix&#8217; co-creator Albert Uderzo dies in his sleep aged 92 at his home in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8216;Asterix and Obelix&#8217; co-creator Albert Uderzo dies in his sleep aged 92 at his home in France<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Albert Uderzo died at his home on the outskirts of Paris aged 92 on Tuesday\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Asterix and Obelix co-creator suffered a heart attack and passed in his sleep\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Udzero created the comic in\u00a01959 with\u00a0Rene Goscinny, who died in 1977<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>After Goscinny&#8217;s death, Uderzo kept drawing the characters until retiring in 2011\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Asterix the Gaul is taking on his most formidable enemy ever&#8230; Coronavirus.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">As the cartoon character\u2019s creator Albert Uderzo died yesterday aged 92, fans circulated pictures from a recent adventure, 2017\u2019s Asterix And The Chariot Race.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">One name seems especially prophetic \u2013 masked charioteer Coronavirus, who has the whole crowd egging him on.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Pint-sized French hero Asterix and his giant best friend Obelix are taking part in a race across Italy, and Julius Caesar wants Coronavirus to win.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43210 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Albert-Uderzo.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Uderzo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Albert Uderzo (pictured left with wife Ada Milani in 2014, and right in the Nineties), the French illustrator who along with writer Rene Goscinny created comic Asterix and Obelix in 1959, has died at his home near Paris aged 92<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43213 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/children\u2019s-book-1.jpg\" alt=\"children\u2019s book\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The thought that a children\u2019s book could have predicted the plague current ravaging the globe is creepy. In fact, there were coronaviruses long before Covid-19.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">It\u2019s a general name for a family of viruses which include the common cold, so named because under a microscope the bug appears to have a corona or spiky crown.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Still, the idea of a packed stadium chanting \u2018Coronavirus\u2019 seems heavily ironic today. The genius who created Asterix died from a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Neuilly-surSeine, France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/children\u2019s-book-2.jpg\" alt=\"children\u2019s book\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>Uderzo said the comic was based on stories his older brother told of running away to western France to escape forced labour under Nazi occupation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">His family said his death was not brought on by coronavirus. Uderzo and his writing partner Rene Goscinny insisted their stories were never topical or satirical.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"m_7394503952688476284ydp13df8a60yiv4385381892m_9140845433028776912m_5319526851349898880ext-gen110\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">But the truth is that the books about Asterix, who drinks a magic potion to give him superstrength, and his pals who defied the Roman invaders 2,000 years ago \u2013 chief Vitalstatistix, druid Getafix , tone-deaf bard Cacofonix and the rest \u2013 were packed with injokes about modern life, with references to politicians and send-ups of pop culture.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Asterix In Britain, from 1966, saw the Gauls rescue their friends across the water from Roman invasion.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43215 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2015-terror-attack-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"2015 terror attack\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Udzero stopped drawing the comic in 2011, picking up his crayons just once more to draw the Gallic pair in a memorial for Charlie Hebdo illustrators killed in the 2015 terror attack<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The English couldn\u2019t do it themselves, because Caesar always attacked during their tea-breaks.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Born in northern France to Italian parents in 1927, Uderzo was colour blind and used stickers to help him identify different shades.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Yet every picture he drew was a miniature masterpiece \u2013 so much so that in 2017 one of the original drawings sold at auction for 1.4million euros (about \u00a31.25million).\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">He first drew his hero with the winged helmet while sitting on the balcony of his Parisian apartment in 1957, sipping an aperitif.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">He later claimed that he and his friend Goscinny were just trying to come up with a children\u2019s story that hadn\u2019t been done before.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Goscinny insisted their central character had to be short, a cunning warrior no bigger than a child. Uderzo agreed, but said this warrior must have a big nose&#8230; because he liked drawing big noses.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Asterix was born \u2013 along with the punning names that are the essence of the books\u2019 genius.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Goscinny died in 1977 after 22 books but Uderzo did nearly 20 more in collaboration with his daughter Sylvie, before handing over to artist Didier Conrad and writer Jean Yves-Fers in 2011. It was they who drew the Coronavirus story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43216 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-comics.jpg\" alt=\"The comics\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>The comics &#8211; which featured plucky Gaul Asterix outsmarting Roman legionnaires with his bulky friend Obelix &#8211; sold 380 million copies worldwide<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;Asterix and Obelix&#8217; co-creator Albert Uderzo dies in his sleep aged 92 at his home in France Albert Uderzo died at his home on the outskirts of Paris aged 92 on Tuesday\u00a0 Asterix and Obelix co-creator suffered a heart attack and passed in his sleep\u00a0 Udzero created the comic in\u00a01959 with\u00a0Rene Goscinny, who died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[15407],"class_list":{"0":"post-43209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-albert-uderzo","9":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Asterix and Obelix&#039; 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