RENE GOSCINNY
French author and illustrator (1926-1977)
Biography:
René Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926. He used to live in Argentina, where he began as a beginner-draughtsman in an advertising agency. He moved to United States in 1945 but comes back to Europe a few years later. Goscinny meets Morris (the creator of Lucky Luck) in New York, Charlier in Brussels and Uderzo in Paris. He quickly gives up working as a draughtsman and begins working as a script writer, occupation in which he seems to be more successful. He carries out a multiplicity of Comics: Oumpah-pah, Spaghetti, Luc Junior, etc...
In 1959, Goscinny, Uderzo and Charlier founded the magazine "Pilote", where the first Asterix was published.