His illustrations are incomparably generous, transporting us to the most magnificent settings in Rome, to Dantean storms at sea and to lavish end-of-album banquets where we can smell the delicious roasted boar as if we were among the guests.
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The results may be two-dimensional but they are full of relief and depth, flitting with disconcerting ease from realism to caricature, from Tanguy et Laverdure to Oumpah-Pah and, in the exhilarating style of the Asterix albums, combining big-nosed caricatures with a remarkable eye for detail, coining an entirely unique graphic synthesis which is incredibly uplifting and accessible. His draughtsmanship is fascinating… his pencil strokes are, quite simply, unique! Nonetheless, so many artists have tried and continue to try to emulate his work! And yet he had no training in draughtsmanship and there was no obvious reason for him to pick up a pencil, given that he was born colour blind and with six fingers on each hand. Uderzo’s illustrations are absolutely unique in their genre, existing at the crossroads where the influences of humorous but realistic Franco-Belgian comic books meet Disney. The success of Asterix is down to the pairing of two talents: René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. He has gone to join his friend René Goscinny in the pantheon of French artistic geniuses, leaving behind Asterix, a major achievement and an international legend – one that provokes wonderment and laughter in millions of readers, and will continue to do so for a long time to come.
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It is as if the sky really has fallen in. The whole team at Éditions Albert René is deeply saddened to hear that Albert Uderzo has died.