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CREATORS
RENÉ GOSCINNy
René Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926. After growing up in Argentina, he came to America where he shared a studio with future Mad magazine co-founder Harvey Kurtzman and collaborators Will Elder and Jack Davis. In 1959, he founded the magazine Pilote which premiered what was to become the most successful comic series anywhere: Asterix. He died suddenly cardiac arrest in 1977 at the age of 51.
ALBERT UDERZO
Albert Uderzo was born in France 1927 to Italian Immigrants. In 1959 Goscinny and Uderzo became editor and artistic director (respectively) of Pilote magazine. Their creation, Asterix became a runaway success. After Goscinny’s death in 1977, 26 volumes of Asterix were complete, Uderzo continued to write and illustrate the Asterix books on his own, publishing 8 volumes. The cover credits still read “Goscinny and Uderzo.” He retired in 2011 but still oversees Asterix and the current publications by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad.
Jean-Yves Ferri
Jean-Yves Ferri was handpicked by surviving Asterix creator, Albert Uderzo, to write subsequent volumes of the Asterix franchise, with artist Didier Conrad. Their first volume of Asterix, the 35th in the series, came out in 2013.
Didier Conrad
Didier Conrad was born in 1959 in France. He worked for the French comics magazine Spirou for a number of years before being handpicked by surviving Asterix creator, Albert Uderzo, to do the art on subsequent volumes of the franchise. Together with writer Jean-Yves Ferri, the duo’s first volume, the 35th in the series, came out in 2013.
Fabrice Caro
Fabrice Caro, known as Fabcaro, writes graphic fiction and novels. Among his plethora of work which kicked off in 1996, highlights include Le Steak haché de Damoclès (2005), La Bredoute (2007) and On est pas là pour réussir (2012). His success was confirmed with the album Zaï zaï zaï zaï , which won the 2015 “Coup de Coeur” Prix Landerneau for a graphic work, the Prix Ouest France “quai des bulles” prize and many other prizes; and it was adapted for the screen by François Desagnat in 2020. In 2016, Fabcaro wrote the text for the new adventures of Gai-Luron, illustrated by Pixel vengeur (Fluide glacial magazine).
