Albert Uderzo, 92, co-creator of French comic series Asterix, dies

Uderzo created Les Éditions Albert Rene two years after Goscinny's death, after a conflict with Dargaud, the pair's original publishing house

Albert Uderzo, a co-creator of Asterix, one of France’s most revered and longest-running comic book series, died on Tuesday at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. He was 92. Bernard de Choisy, Uderzo’s son-in-law, told the Agence France-Presse that the cause was a heart attack.

The series is joined perhaps only by Tintin and Mickey Mouse in the pantheon of comic book and cartoon characters with uninterrupted universal appeal. In 1966, France’s first space satellite was named Asterix.

The series has been translated into more than 100 languages and dialects and has sold more than 380 million copies