{"id":5385,"date":"2017-06-14T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.asterix.com\/the-creators\/rene-goscinny\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T06:52:38","slug":"rene-goscinny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/en\/the-creators\/rene-goscinny\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Goscinny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"content2\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/goscinny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/goscinny-200x155.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/goscinny-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/goscinny.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>1926<\/h3>\n<p>Birth of Ren\u00e9 Goscinny in Paris.<\/p>\n<h3>1928<\/h3>\n<p>After the birth of little Ren\u00e9, the Goscinny family leaves for Argentina for professional reasons. Ren\u00e9 quietly spends his childhood there and goes to the French Lyc\u00e9e in Buenos Aires, where he already begins to stand out (according to him, he has a reputation for clowning about).<\/p>\n<h3>1943<\/h3>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t stop him later from getting a BA and studying fine art.<br \/>\nFrom their remote position in South America the family experience the Second World War, which sees many of their relations die. Ren\u00e9 Goscinny is to keep the scars from this painful period all his life.<\/p>\n<h3>1945<\/h3>\n<p>Ren\u00e9 is still a teenager when his father dies and he has to find a job quickly.<br \/>\nAfter a few short-term experiences, he becomes an assistant illustrator in an advertising agency and then leaves for New York at the invitation of an uncle who has settled there.<br \/>\nThis is the beginning of a tough time that is to last 5 years.<br \/>\nWith no money and little work, he decides to return to Europe to do his military service in the French Army. He then goes back to the States where he meets the team from the humour publication MAD Magazine (Willy Elder, Harvey Kurtzman &#8230;), who give him enough work to survive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content3\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/015_sempe_goscinny_uderzo_charlier-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/015_sempe_goscinny_uderzo_charlier-200x131.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/015_sempe_goscinny_uderzo_charlier-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/015_sempe_goscinny_uderzo_charlier-400x262.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/015_sempe_goscinny_uderzo_charlier-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ancien.asterix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/015_sempe_goscinny_uderzo_charlier.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>1949<\/h3>\n<p>In New York he meets the cartoonists Jij\u00e9 and Morris.<br \/>\nThe latter introduces him to Georges Troisfontaines, boss of World Press, and Yvan Ch\u00e9ron, head of International Press. They reach a deal and a few weeks later Ren\u00e9 arrives in Paris to work with them &#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>1951<\/h3>\n<p>One fine morning in 1951, Albert Uderzo, who is working for World Press\/International Press, is told that someone new, called &#8216;Gossini&#8217; is coming to join them. When Albert hears this name, his Italian roots get all excited. But he learns that &#8220;No, his name is spelt G.o.s.c.i.n.n.y. He&#8217;s French and he&#8217;s moving here from the United States.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe two hit it off immediately, and are to work on numerous joint projects. The partnership results in many heroes, including Oompah-Pah, whom many see as a precursor to Asterix.<\/p>\n<h3>1956<\/h3>\n<p>Uderzo and Goscinny then play an active part alongside Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean H\u00e9brard to create the companies called Edipresse (news agency) and Edifrance (advertising agency), which at last give them the opportunity to express themselves independently. There follow several difficult years when the two try out various jobs, but this period is nonetheless extremely fertile in terms of projects and ideas.<br \/>\nAt the time, to earn a living, Albert Uderzo goes so far as to produce nine plates in a week, a colossal amount of work. Sometimes, for lack of time, he skips the sketches and does his drawings directly in ink.<\/p>\n<h3>1959<\/h3>\n<p>Then an important project monopolises our two friends&#8217; time: to create a magazine called Pilote, in conjunction with Fran\u00e7ois Clauteaux, who will be the editor, Albert and Ren\u00e9 look for a typically French hero. The decision is made and they choose the Romance of Renart.<br \/>\nHowever, they are quickly told that the project is already under way, initiated by Jean Trubert. So their idea won&#8217;t work and they have to find another one. After exploring the historical ages of France, Albert and Ren\u00e9 agree on Gaul and the Gauls.<br \/>\nAnd so, on 29 October 1959, the FIRST issue of Pilote presents its captivated readers with the first plate of the Adventures of Asterix the Gaul, on page 20. The magazine is an immediate success: more than 300,000 copies sold!<br \/>\nPilote (with its slogan, &#8216;wow, what a magazine!&#8217;) has its hour of glory. Many a young reader grows up with it.<br \/>\nThen it experiences a few ups and downs and our two friends hand over in 1960, only to come back in 1963. At the time Ren\u00e9 Goscinny works on numerous comic strips &#8211; Asterix, of course, as well as Iznogoud (Tabary), Little Nicholas (Semp\u00e9), Lucky Luke (Morris), Valentin (Tabary), The Dingodossiers (Gotlib), and more.<\/p>\n<h3>1968<\/h3>\n<p>The two authors continue some of the series for a while, either working together or on their own. However, from the &#8220;Asterix and the Chieftain&#8217;s Shield&#8221; album onwards, Albert Uderzo decides to devote himself exclusively to the little Gaulish hero and abandons his other characters.<\/p>\n<h3>1977<\/h3>\n<p>Asterix becomes a major French comic strip hero, with his popularity increasing album by album.<br \/>\nHe brings great happiness to Albert and Ren\u00e9, who by now have also founded a cartoon film studio, called Studio Id\u00e9fix. However, misfortune is just around the corner.<br \/>\nThe awful news comes on 5 November 1977: Ren\u00e9 Goscinny dies during an exercise stress test for a medical check-up. He was 51. The shock is terrible.<br \/>\n&#8220;Asterix in Belgium&#8221; is up to plate 37.<\/p>\n<p>His tremendous talent allowed his heroes to survive him, and Ren\u00e9 Goscinny continues today to make millions of readers around the world laugh, both big and small.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5181,"menu_order":276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ren\u00e9 Goscinny - Asterix - The official website<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ren\u00e9 Goscinny - 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