René Goscinny

René Goscinny (August 14, 1926 – November 5, 1977) French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic strip "Astérix", which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and the comic strip "Lucky Luke".

First works

The following year, he illustrated the book "The Girl with The Eyes of Gold" and returned to New York. On his arrival René went through the most difficult period of his life. For a while, he was jobless, alone and totally broke. By 1948, though, he recovered and started working in a small studio where he met and became friends with future Mad alumni Will Elder, Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman. René then became art director at Kunen Publishers where he wrote four books for children. He met Maurice de Bévère aka Morris, the cartoonist and first author of the comic book series "Lucky Luke" (René would write the Lucky Luke series from 1955 to his death in 1977), around this time, in 1949 and also Joseph Gillain, better known as Jijé.

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1948 - Mad - Will Elder - Jack Davis - Harvey Kurtzman - Kunen Publishers - Morris - Cartoonist - Lucky Luke - 1955 - 1977 - 1949 - Jijé

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Also, he met Georges Troisfontaines, chief of the World Press agency, who convinced René to return to Paris and work for his agency as the head of Paris office in 1951. Here, he met Albert Uderzo, with whom he started a longtime cooperation. They started out with some work for Bonnes Soirées, a female magazine for which Goscinny wrote "Sylvie". Goscinny and Uderzo also launched the series 'Jehan Pistolet' and 'Luc Junior' in La Libre Junior.

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Georges Troisfontaines - World Press agency - 1951 - Bonnes Soirées - La Libre Junior

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In 1955, Goscinny, accompanied by Jean-Michel Charlier, Albert Uderzo and Jean Hébrad, founded the syndicate Edipress/Edifrance. The syndicate launched publications like Clairon for the factory union and Pistolin for a chocolate company. Goscinny and Uderzo cooperated on the series 'Bill Blanchart' in Jeannot, 'Pistolet' in Pistolin and 'Benjamin et Benjamine' in the magazine of the same name. Under the pseudonym Agostini, Goscinny wrote Le Petit Nicolas for Jean-Jacques Sempé in Le Moustique and later Sud-Ouest and Pilote.

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1955 - Jean-Michel Charlier - Jean Hébrad - Le Petit Nicolas - Jean-Jacques Sempé - Le Moustique - Sud-Ouest - Pilote

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In 1956, Goscinny began a collaboration with the magazine Tintin. He wrote some short stories for Jo Angenot and Albert Weinberg, and worked on 'Signor Spaghetti' with Dino Attanasio, 'Monsieur Tric' with Bob De Moor, 'Prudence Petitpas' with Maurice Maréchal, 'Globul le Martien' and 'Alphonse' with Tibet (Gilbert Gascard), 'Modeste et Pompon' with André Franquin, 'Strapontin' with Berck (Arthur Berckmans) and 'Oumpah-pah' with Uderzo. In addition, Goscinny appeared in the magazines Paris-Flirt ('Lili Manequin' with Will) and Vaillant ('Boniface et Anatole' with Jordom, 'Pipsi' with Godard).

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1956 - Tintin - Jo Angenot - Albert Weinberg - Maurice Maréchal - Gilbert Gascard - André Franquin - Berck - Arthur Berckmans - Oumpah-pah - Paris-Flirt - Vaillant

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