Albert Uderzo has died
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Albert Uderzo has died
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#2I loved those books as a kid. He brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people with his work.
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#3Same - brilliant and enjoyable on multiple levels.
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#4I loved those books as a kid. He brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people with his work.
-If you haven't reread them as an adult, do yourself a favour and get started. I, too, loved them as a kid - but have found that Asterix resonates on many levels. It is definitely a comic for grown-ups too, gently mocking the grown-up world in oh so many ways.
I'll pour myself a generous helping of calvados and reread a few of the albums tonight. RIP, Albert.
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#5RIP Monsieur Uderzo
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#6Uderzo (and Goscinny, his partner in crime) are childhood heroes of mine, together with Franquin and all the other stripmakers they slowly got me into reading more substantial stuff. Supberb sense of humor and tons of tricks that you'd only appreciate if you read them again at a later age.
Naive? Me? ;)
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#7Uderzo (and Goscinny, his partner in crime) are childhood heroes of mine, together with Franquin and all the other stripmakers they slowly got me into reading more substantial stuff. Supberb sense of humor and tons of tricks that you'd only appreciate if you read them again at a later age. Naive? Me? ;) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY83gwMW4AARkVP?format=jpg
I hold those two directly responsible for much of my love of wordplay. And a strong thank you to all of the translators around the world who made their work such a fun way to learn new languages. Cheers to them all.
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#8The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out.
To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
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#9The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out. To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
Start at the beginning [1].
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#10The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out. To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
Generally, most of the Asterix comics that were written by Goscinny with illustrations by Uderzo are good. The later ones only by Uderzo or nowadays even by other authors are not always as good as the original ones.