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Uderzo talks about himself for the first time. He talks about his life, his oeuvre, in his typical gentle, humor filled fashion, and with a narrative brio and a sense of observation that will surprise his millions of readers.
He recounts how his parents arrived from Italy to settle in France in 1923 and his own childhood in Clichy-sous-Bois, in the suburbs of Paris. How he met Ada, the love of his life who was to become his wife. And of course, he talks about his beginnings and his success at the drawing board: Uderzo is one of the most famous cartoonists in the world.
René Goscinny was not only his working partner, but an adopted brother: together they first thought of and created Asterix and his adventures. Goscinny 's death left Uderzo inconsolable. The two names remain for ever associated in the history of the French cartoon however: as part of the 'Éditions Albert-René', Uderzo managed to create tens of books that became classics.
Uderzo describes the birth of Pilote magazine; the first animated films of d'Astérix and Obélix. In the pages of his book, the reader will meet many celebrities and State figures: who after all better incarnates the spirit of Frenchness than the smallest of great heroes, that darling Asterix?
