The co-creator of Asterix tells the secrets of Asterix on Briton BBC website.
Our Gaul rugby team may have been defeated by the Briton team, Anticlimax’s fellows demonstrate their passion for famous French flair by giving Albert Uderzo, co-creator of the world’s most famous Gaul, a chance to appear as a special guest star on Briton BBC website!
And what a pleasure! Albert Uderzo speaks about his beginnings as a drawer: “
My father was panicked, he had this image of painters being people in the 19th Century with tuberculosis. He didn't want me to be an artist.” He then tells us a lot about his relationship with friend and colleague René Goscinny, and why it’s so important for him that both names appear on all Asterix books: "
I find it completely normal to have both names on the album, I would be ashamed to only put mine on, even if it was only me who wrote them. Goscinny will intrinsically be a part of them as long as Asterix lives."
Definitely faithful to his past, Albert Uderzo still is working on Asterix’s future: while answering BBC questions, he manages to find the time to approve the colour of the podium on an Asterix plastic figure and to take a telephone call from Gerard Depardieu, the actor playing Obelix in the forthcoming film
Asterix at the Olympic Games.
Finally, Mario Cacciottolo, the author of the article, has a very nice idea: “Asterix got his name because he is the “star” of the comics”. Not quite, says Albert: “
Goscinny just wanted to make sure that our work would appear first in an encyclopaedia of comics.”
But here, in the Virtual Village, we must admit that we really like this idea. And after all, isn’t that just normal that the star of the comics appear first in encyclopaedia? We just take it as one more proof that René and Albert really were ahead of their time, by Toutatis!
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