Albert Uderzo Bio (Biography)
Real name:
Albert Uderzo
Date of birth:
April 25. 1927
Place of birth:
Fismes, France
Astrology Sign:
Taurus
Tags:
Biography
Every Sunday you walk out to the front yard, snag the paper from the tall bushes where the paperboy has so agilely (and probably gleefully) thrown every week for the past six years, sit down at the kitchen table to have a nice, hot mug of Joe while you wait for your eggs and pancakes, and you open the paper to the funnies just to see and laugh at his comics. Albert Uderzo is not one of the most talented and recognizable comic strip creators in the world, but over the years has also become a part of our lives and our weekly traditions.
Albert may be have been born colorblind, but that didn't stop him from pursuing his immediate talent and eye for art as a profession. Albert has taken the moments, kindnesses and illnesses of his life and turned them into something to laugh about, in turn, creating in himself, one of the most memorable faces of comic strip art.
Born on the 25 April 1927, in Fismes, France, Albert was created with a gift that some artists and writers would have killed for-two extra fingers, which were later surgically removed, most likely to avoid the cruelties of young children.
Although Albert initially had dreams of becoming a plane mechanic, he started his artistic career with a bang just after the end of World War II and continued on as a solo artist through 1951, creating such memorable cartoons as Flamberge, Clopinard, Belloy and Arys Buck.
Albert's big break came in 1951, when he met Rene Goscinny and the pair began working together at the World Press. The pair achieved great success over the next seven years with their first creation, Jehan Pistolet but they were both restless for newer and better cartoons, and they began working on Oumpah-pah, which stayed in creation and regular circulation as a favorite strip until 1962.
Albert and Rene stayed together throughout the rest of their careers, taking over "Pilote" magazine in 1959, where the pair first introduced Asterix. The new comic strip, aimed at a demographic of older children sparked the public's interest immediately and propelled the pair into fame and a future they could not have dreamed of. In 1961, they separated Asterix the Gaul from "Pilote" as well as extricating themselves from the magazine business to work full time on the comic strip volumes.
The pair continued to put out 2 Asterix albums per year until Rene's death in 1977.
Albert married his true love, Ada Milani in 1953, and the pair remains a happy, loving couple to this day. They have one daughter, Sylvia.
Currently, Albert still produces the Asterix comics, although he only releases one album every 3-5 years-without his partner and in his old age, it is much more difficult to turn out work at a pace quick enough for the readers, who are always banging down the doors of the bookstores each time a new album is released.
Albert may be have been born colorblind, but that didn't stop him from pursuing his immediate talent and eye for art as a profession. Albert has taken the moments, kindnesses and illnesses of his life and turned them into something to laugh about, in turn, creating in himself, one of the most memorable faces of comic strip art.
Born on the 25 April 1927, in Fismes, France, Albert was created with a gift that some artists and writers would have killed for-two extra fingers, which were later surgically removed, most likely to avoid the cruelties of young children.
Although Albert initially had dreams of becoming a plane mechanic, he started his artistic career with a bang just after the end of World War II and continued on as a solo artist through 1951, creating such memorable cartoons as Flamberge, Clopinard, Belloy and Arys Buck.
Albert's big break came in 1951, when he met Rene Goscinny and the pair began working together at the World Press. The pair achieved great success over the next seven years with their first creation, Jehan Pistolet but they were both restless for newer and better cartoons, and they began working on Oumpah-pah, which stayed in creation and regular circulation as a favorite strip until 1962.
Albert and Rene stayed together throughout the rest of their careers, taking over "Pilote" magazine in 1959, where the pair first introduced Asterix. The new comic strip, aimed at a demographic of older children sparked the public's interest immediately and propelled the pair into fame and a future they could not have dreamed of. In 1961, they separated Asterix the Gaul from "Pilote" as well as extricating themselves from the magazine business to work full time on the comic strip volumes.
The pair continued to put out 2 Asterix albums per year until Rene's death in 1977.
Albert married his true love, Ada Milani in 1953, and the pair remains a happy, loving couple to this day. They have one daughter, Sylvia.
Currently, Albert still produces the Asterix comics, although he only releases one album every 3-5 years-without his partner and in his old age, it is much more difficult to turn out work at a pace quick enough for the readers, who are always banging down the doors of the bookstores each time a new album is released.
