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Albert Uderzo, co-creator of French hero Asterix, passes away in his sleep at age 92

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Published:   |  24th March 2020 06:27 PM  
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Albert Uderzo (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File)

Albert Uderzo (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File)

PARIS (AP): Albert Uderzo, one of the two creators of the beloved comic book character Asterix, who captured the spirit of the Gauls of yore and grew a reputation worldwide, died on Tuesday. He was 92.

The French press quoted family members as saying that Uderzo died of a heart attack in the Paris suburb of Neuilly.

Asterix, portrayed as a short man always wearing a helmet with wings, was created in the early 1960s by Uderzo and Rene Goscinny.

The character lived in a village in Gaul, present-day France, resisting Roman conquerors, along with his plump, inseparable friend Obelix.

“Albert Uderzo died in his sleep at his Neuilly home of a heart attack with no links to the coronavirus,” the French press quoted his son-in-law, Bernard de Choisy, as saying.

“He had been very tired for several weeks.”

Uderzo initially illustrated the characters created along with writer Renee Goscinny. After Goscinny's death in 1977, Uderzo also took over the comic book's writing duties.

A spin-off theme park outside Paris draws tens of thousands of fans of the iconic resistance hero and his mighty sidekick, Obelix.

 

Sep 1985 file photo: Albert Uderzo (AP Photo/ Olivier Boitet, File)

 

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