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French comic book writer (1926–1977)
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Astérix
Iznogoud
Le Petit Nicolas
Lucky Luke
Oumpah-pah
Collaborators<br>Albert Uderzo
Jean-Jacques Sempé
Morris
Marcel Gotlib
Jean Tabary
AwardsFull listSpouse
Gilberte Pollaro-Millo
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René Goscinny (French: [ʁəne ɡɔsini]; Polish: [ɡɔɕˈt͡ɕinnɨ] ⓘ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Asterix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spent his childhood in Argentina where he attended French schools and later lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist Morris. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series Lucky Luke (in what was considered the series' golden age).[1]
He wrote Iznogoud with Jean Tabary. Goscinny also wrote a series of children's books known as Le Petit Nicolas ("Little Nicolas") illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé.
Early life<br>[edit source]
Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926 to Jewish immigrants from Poland.[2] His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from Warsaw, and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków (modern-day Khodorkiv), a small village near Kyiv in Ukraine.[3][full citation needed] Goscinny's maternal grandfather, Abraham Lazare Berezniak, founded a printing company.[4] Claude, Goscinny's older brother, was six years older, born on 10 December 1920.
Stanisław and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. When René was two, the Gościnnys moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father had been hired as a chemical engineer. René had a happy childhood in Buenos Aires and studied in French-language schools there. He was often the class clown, probably to compensate for a natural shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated stories which he enjoyed reading.
In December 1943, the year after Goscinny graduated from lycée, or high school, his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke). The youth had to go to work. The next year, he landed his first job as an assistant accountant in a tyre recovery factory. After being laid off the following year, Goscinny became a junior illustrator in an advertising agency.[5]
Goscinny, along with his mother, left Argentina and immigrated to New York, United States, in 1945 to join her brother Boris. To avoid military service in the U.S.[citation needed] he travelled to France to enlist in the French Army in 1946. He served at Aubagne in the 141st Alpine Infantry Battalion. Promoted to senior corporal, he became the appointed artist of the regiment and drew illustrations and posters for the army.
First works<br>[edit source]
The following year, Goscinny worked on an illustrated version of the Balzac novella The Girl with the Golden Eyes.[6] In April of that year he returned to New York.
There he went through the most difficult period of his life. For a while, Goscinny was jobless, alone, and living in poverty. By 1948, though, he had begun working in a small studio, where he became friends with future MAD Magazine contributors Will Elder, Jack Davis, and Harvey Kurtzman.[5] Goscinny became art director at Kunen Publishers, where he wrote four books for children.
Around this time he met two Belgian comic artists, Joseph Gillain, better known as Jijé, and Maurice de Bevere, also known as Morris. Morris lived in the US for six years, having already...