Anonymous Coward User ID: 78640489 United States 03/24/2020 06:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | co-creator of famous comic series "Asterix and Obelix ", died on Tuesday, aged 92 I use to read these while waiting in the library for my parents to get done banking and shopping. Loved these comics, among others. RIP! [ link to news.yahoo.com (secure)] @50%his family said. Uderzo "died in his sleep at his home in Neuilly (western Paris), 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 Agence France Presse. Uderzo and author Rene Goscinny are known as the "fathers" of the French comic series about a small village of Gauls who stand up to Roman occupiers. Uderzo was initially the illustrator of the comic strip written by Goscinny, who died in 1977. [ link to news.yahoo.com (secure)] |