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Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo dies aged 92
For my generation, the Asterix and Tintin albums were the comic albums which we grew up with.
In an interview with The Connexion in 2008, the Frenchman joked that Asterix was born "at the best time of the day - aperitif time!"
He and Goscinny were sitting on the balcony of his apartment trying to dream up a character for the new magazine aimed at children.
"The brief was very precise - François Clauteaux, one of the magazine's founders, wanted a character taken from French culture," Uderzo recalled.
"At the time it was important to try to set yourself apart from the American superheroes, or certain reporters one could mention [Tintin].
"So I looked back through history with René and reviewed all the different periods of French history. We needed something original which no-one else had worked on.
"When we got to the Gauls - eureka!"
For my generation, the Asterix and Tintin albums were the comic albums which we grew up with.
“The year is 50BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely … One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium.”