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ASTERIX: THE COMPLETE ASTERIX BOX SET (39 TITLES) (Paperback)

ASTERIX: THE COMPLETE ASTERIX BOX SET (39 TITLES) (Paperback)

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THE ASTERIX PHENOMENONFirst appeared: 29 October 1959 in Pilote magazine1st comic book: Asterix the Gaul in 1961: 6,000 copies370,000,000 comic books sold worldwide: 8,880 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other. Placed end to end, the books would stretch twice around the Earth, and would weigh 12,900 tonnes (i.e. 400 lorries weighing 35 tonnes each.) 111 translations (languages and dialects) 9 animated films4 live action films1 theme park: "Le Parc Astérix" 100 licenses'If there's anyone who can simply transcend age altogether it's my first choice, the little Gaulish warrior called Asterix ... and despite the burden of expectations they don't disappoint ... It's a delight. And while the creative team in France has changed, we can be grateful that the English version remains in the incomparably skilled hands of Anthea Bell, who's translated the books with wit and energy since the very beginning' - Daniel Hahn, Independent
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sphere
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1408726661
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1408726662
Best known as the author of Asterix, Goscinny is

also the talent behind the scenario of Lucky Luke, the hugely popular

comic book of 'the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow'. Goscinny

was born on 11 August 1926 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, the son

of Stanislas (Simkha) from Warsaw and of Anna Beresniak from

Khodorkow, a small Ukrainian village. In 1928, his parents took him to

Argentina, where his father, a chemical engineer, had been

seconded. He spent a happy childhood in Buenos Aires, and studied at

the French Lyce just before the Second World War. He had a habit of

making every one laugh in class, probably to compensate for a natural

shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated

stories which he enjoyed reading. In 1945, he emigrated to the United

States. "I went to the United States to work with Walt Disney" he was

to say later "but Walt Disney didn't know that". He found himself in

New York, jobless, alone and totally broke. The next 6 years, which he

spent in New York, are often considered his formative years. As he

said "It was not so bad...it toughened me up, although I would have

liked it better if others had been toughened up on my behalf". It is

during these years that he met his first friends, some who were to

publish "Mad" in 1945, and others with whom he was to collaborate for

a long time to come. Among these was Maurice de Bvre aka Morris, the

cartoonist and first author of Lucky Luke. He also met Georges

Troisfontaines, the boss of the World Press Agency in Belgium, who

persuaded Goscinny to work for him. He returned to Europe in 1951 for

this purpose, but was fired in 1956 for trying to put in place a

charter to protect the status of cartoonists and scenarist. The years

until the creation of the magazine "Pilote" were years of transition,

when Goscinny's talent matured and he seized upon many

opportunities. Besides his collaboration with Morris on the Lucky Luke

series from 1955 onwards, Goscinny worked on the scenario of "Le petit

Nicolas" (Little Nicholas) in cartoon form with its creator, Sempe. In

1959 the magazine "Pilote" was launched. Goscinny found his place in the

editorial team among some of his faithful friends from World

Press. The aim of "Pilote" was to change radically the way that the

graphic novel ("the BD") would be perceived in France, and competed

with "Tintin" and "Spirou" magazines on their own territories. How best to

go about that task than by inventing an astute little Gaul, give him a

large size sidekick and place their adventures within a little village

of irreducible Gauls whose names all end in -ix? Asterix is born. The

bande dessinee enters adulthood. He married Gilberte Pollaro-Millo in

1967. In 1968 his daughter Anne is born. Many young authors owe their

fame to Goscinny, who opened for them the pages of "Pilote". While

working on scenarios for the television and the cinema and on many

different texts, Goscinny headed Pilote in one capacity or another

until his death on 5 November 1977.