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{{Short description|French comic book writer (1926–1977)}}
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*''[[Asterix|Astérix]]''
*''[[Iznogoud]]''
*''[[Le Petit Nicolas]]''
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*[[Albert Uderzo]]
*[[Jean-Jacques Sempé]]
*[[Morris (cartoonist)|Morris]]
*[[Gotlib|Marcel Gotlib]]
*[[Jean Tabary]]}}
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'''René Goscinny''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁəne ɡɔsini|lang}}, {{IPA|pl|ɡɔɕˈt͡ɕinnɨ|lang|Pl-gościnny.ogg}}; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''[[Asterix|Astérix]]'' [[comic book]] series with illustrator [[Albert Uderzo]]. He was raised primarily in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, where he attended French schools, and he lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist [[Morris (cartoonist)|Morris]]. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' (in what was considered the series' golden age).<ref name="Babic2013">{{cite book|author=Annessa Ann Babic|title=Comics as History, Comics as Literature: Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJJlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|date=11 December 2013|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-1-61147-557-9|pages=53–}}</ref>

He wrote ''[[Iznogoud]]'' with [[Jean Tabary]]. Goscinny also wrote a series of children's books known as ''[[Le Petit Nicolas]]'' (''Little Nicolas'') illustrated by [[Jean-Jacques Sempé]].

==Early life==
Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to [[Jews|Jewish]] immigrants from Poland.<ref name="obs">{{cite web | last = Garcia|first= Laure|work =Le Nouvel Observateur | title = Uderzo, le dernier Gaulois | url = http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/hebdo/parution/p2136/articles/a280131-uderzo__le_dernier_gaulois.html|language=fr}}</ref> His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from [[Warsaw]], and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków (modern-day {{ill|Khodorkiv|uk|Ходорків}}), a small village near [[Kyiv]] in [[Ukraine]].<ref>According to Yeruham Eniss, the village had a soap factory, and many Jews of nearby Chodorków had jobs selling and trading in soap. A census made in the late 1930s counted 3670 Jewish families in Chodorków before [[World War II]] ([[ShtetLinks]] website: alternate spellings include Chortkow and Khodorkiv)</ref>{{full citation needed|date=December 2023}} Goscinny's maternal grandfather, Abraham Lazare Berezniak, founded a printing company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wild-adventures-of-rene-goscinny-jewish-inventor-of-asterix-and-obelix/|title=The wild adventures of René Goscinny, Jewish inventor of Asterix and Obelix|website=[[The Times of Israel]] }}</ref> Claude, Goscinny's older brother, was six years older, born on 10 December 1920.

Stanisław and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. When René was two, the Gościnnys moved to [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], because his father had been hired as a chemical engineer there. René had a happy childhood in Buenos Aires and studied in French-language schools there. He was often the "class clown", probably to compensate for a natural shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated stories which he enjoyed reading.

In December 1943, the year after Goscinny graduated from lycée or high school, his father died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] (stroke). The youth had to go to work. The next year, he got his first job as an assistant accountant in a tyre recovery factory. After being laid off the following year, Goscinny became a junior illustrator in an advertising agency.<ref name="lambiek">{{cite web | last = Lambiek Comiclopedia | title = René Goscinny | url =http://lambiek.net/artists/g/goscinny.htm}}</ref>

Goscinny, along with his mother, emigrated from Argentina and immigrated to New York, United States in 1945 to join her brother, Boris. To avoid service in the [[United States Armed Forces]]{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} he travelled to France to join the [[French Army]] in 1946. He served at [[Aubagne]] in the 141st Alpine Infantry Battalion. Promoted to senior [[corporal]], he became the appointed artist of the regiment and drew illustrations and posters for the army.

==First works==
The following year, Goscinny worked on an illustrated version of the [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]] novella ''[[La Fille aux yeux d'or|The Girl with the Golden Eyes]]''.<ref>Honoré de Balzac, ''La fille aux yeux d'or'', Paris : Éditions du livre français, collection "Les classiques du XIXe", 1946.</ref> In April of that year he returned to New York.

There he went through the most difficult period of his life. For a while, Goscinny was jobless, alone, and living in poverty. By 1948, though, he had begun working in a small studio, where he became friends with future ''[[MAD Magazine]]'' contributors [[Will Elder]], [[Jack Davis (cartoonist)|Jack Davis]], and [[Harvey Kurtzman]].<ref name="lambiek"/> Goscinny became art director at [[Kunen Publishers]], where he wrote four books for children.

Around this time he met two Belgian comic artists, Joseph Gillain, better known as [[Jijé]], and Maurice de Bevere, also known as [[Morris (comics)|Morris]]. Morris lived in the US for six years, having already started his cartoon series ''[[Lucky Luke]].'' (He and Goscinny collaborated on this, with Goscinny writing it from 1955 until his death in 1977, a period described as its golden age).<ref name="lambiek"/>

[[Georges Troisfontaines]], chief of the [[World Press agency]], convinced Goscinny to return to France in 1951 in order to work for his agency as the head of the [[Paris]] office. There he met [[Albert Uderzo]], with whom he started a longtime collaboration.<ref name="lambiek"/><ref name="lagardere">{{cite web | last = Lagardère | title = Release of the 33rd Asterix volume | url =http://www.lagardere.com/us/actualites/detail_actu.cfm?idt=9&idn=5994&nav=0 }}</ref> They started out with some work for ''[[Bonnes Soirées]]'', a women's magazine for which Goscinny wrote ''Sylvie''. Goscinny and Uderzo also launched the series ''Jehan Pistolet'' and ''Luc Junior,'' in the magazine ''La Libre Junior''.

In 1955, Goscinny, together with Uderzo, [[Jean-Michel Charlier]], and [[Jean Hébrad]], founded the syndicate Edipress/Edifrance. The syndicate launched publications such as ''Clairon'' for the factory union and ''Pistolin'' for a chocolate company. Goscinny and Uderzo cooperated on the series ''Bill Blanchart'' in ''Jeannot'', ''Pistolet'' in ''Pistolin,'' and ''Benjamin et Benjamine'' in the magazine of the same name. Under the pseudonym Agostini, Goscinny wrote ''[[Le petit Nicolas|Le Petit Nicolas]]'' for [[Jean-Jacques Sempé]] in ''[[Le Moustique]].'' It was later published in ''[[Sud-Ouest (magazine)|Sud-Ouest]]'' and ''[[Pilote]]'' magazines.

In 1956, Goscinny began a collaboration with ''[[Tintin (magazine)|Tintin]]'' magazine. He wrote some short stories for [[Jo Angenot]] and [[Albert Weinberg]], and worked on ''Signor Spaghetti'' with [[Dino Attanasio]], ''Monsieur Tric'' with [[Bob de Moor]], ''[[Prudence Petitpas]]'' with [[Maurice Maréchal (comics artist)|Maurice Maréchal]], ''Globul le Martien'' and ''Alphonse'' with [[Tibet (comics)|Tibet]], ''Strapontin'' with [[Arthur Berckmans|Berck]] and ''[[Modeste et Pompon]]'' with [[André Franquin]]. An early creation with Uderzo, ''[[Oumpah-pah]]'', was also adapted for serial publication in ''Tintin'' from 1958 to 1962.<ref name="asterix int">{{cite web | last = Asterix International! | title = Albert Uderzo | url =http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/uderzo.shtml }}</ref> In addition, Goscinny appeared in the magazines ''[[Paris-Flirt]]'' (''Lili Manequin'' with [[Will (comics)|Will]]) and ''[[Vaillant (magazine)|Vaillant]]'' (''Boniface et Anatole'' with Jordom, ''Pipsi'' with Godard).

==''Pilote'' and ''Astérix'' (1959)==
In 1959, the Édifrance/Édipresse syndicate started the [[Franco-Belgian comics]] magazine ''[[Pilote]]''.<ref name="BDO-1959">{{cite web|last=BDoubliées|title=Pilote année 1959|url=http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/annees/1959.htm|language=fr}}</ref> Goscinny became one of the most productive writers for the magazine. In the magazine's first issue, he launched ''[[Asterix|Astérix]]'', with Uderzo. The series was an instant hit and remains popular worldwide. Goscinny also restarted the series ''Le Petit Nicolas'' and ''Jehan Pistolet'', now called ''Jehan Soupolet''. Goscinny also began ''Jacquot le Mousse'' and ''Tromblon et Bottaclou'' with Godard.

The magazine was bought by [[Georges Dargaud]] in 1960, and Goscinny became editor-in-chief. He also began new series like ''Les Divagations de Monsieur Sait-Tout'' (with Martial), ''La Potachologie Illustrée'' (with [[Cabu]]), ''Les Dingodossiers'' (with [[Marcel Gotlieb|Gotlib]]) and ''La Forêt de Chênebeau'' (with [[Mic Delinx]]). With [[Tabary]], he launched ''Calife Haroun El Poussah'' in ''Record'', a series that was later continued in ''Pilote'' as ''[[Iznogoud]]''. With [[Raymond Macherot]] he created ''Pantoufle'' for ''[[Spirou (magazine)|Spirou]]''.

==Family==
Goscinny married Gilberte Pollaro-Millo in 1967. In 1968, their daughter Anne Goscinny was born. She also became an author.

Anne Goscinny, the daughter of René Goscinny, co-wrote the screenplay for ''[[Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be]]'', 2022 animation film with Michel Fessler and Massoubre.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kay2022-12-09T11:19:00+00:00 |first=Jeremy |title=Annecy winner 'Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be' scores Buffalo 8 US deal (exclusive) |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/annecy-winner-little-nicholas-happy-as-can-be-scores-buffalo-8-us-deal-exclusive/5177352.article |access-date=13 December 2022 |website=Screen |language=en}}</ref>

==Death==
[[File:GoscinnyRenéGrabstein.JPG|thumb|Goscinny's tombstone in Nice]]

Goscinny died at 51, in Paris of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] on 5 November 1977, during a routine [[cardiac stress test|stress test]] at his doctor's office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sante/20121108.OBS8681/le-gag-rate-de-goscinny-mourir-d-un-arret-du-c-ur-chez-son-cardiologue.html|title=Le gag raté de Goscinny : mourir d'un arrêt du cœur chez son cardiologue|work=Sciences et Avenir|language=fr|access-date=21 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115059/http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sante/20121108.OBS8681/le-gag-rate-de-goscinny-mourir-d-un-arret-du-c-ur-chez-son-cardiologue.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1977-11-07 |title=Rene Goscinny Dies In Paris; Created Noted Comic Strip |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/07/archives/rene-goscinny-dies-in-paris-created-noted-comic-strip.html |access-date=2023-07-27 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in [[Nice]]. In accordance with his will, most of his money was transferred to the [[Chief Rabbi#France|chief rabbinate of France]].

Goscinny's death occurred part-way through the writing of ''[[Asterix in Belgium]]'' (published in 1979, two years after his death). As a homage to Goscinny, Uderzo drew darkened skies and rain into the comic.  The last panel on page 32 and all but the last panel on page 33 were drawn with grey skies and rain to mark the point at which Goscinny died. Most of the remaining panels in the book were drawn with leaden grey skies, but none have rain. There is a further tribute at the end of the book: near the lower left corner of the final panel, Uderzo drew a rabbit sadly looking over its shoulders towards Goscinny's signature. Regrettably, as printed (at least in the German edition) the outlines are too thick, even at 10X magnification, to make clear what the rabbit is doing.

After Goscinny's death, Uderzo began to write ''Asterix'' himself and continued the series, although at a much slower pace, until passing the series over in 2011 to writer [[Jean-Yves Ferri]] and illustrator [[Didier Conrad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/italy-beckons-for-gaul-comic-heros-asterix-and-obelix/|title=Italy beckons for Gaul comic heros Asterix and Obelix|first=Franck|last=Iovene|website=www.timesofisrael.com}}</ref> Tabary similarly began to write ''Iznogoud'' himself, whereas Morris continued ''Lucky Luke'' with various other writers.

As a further tribute to Goscinny, Uderzo gave his late colleague's likeness to the Jewish character Saul ben Ephishul (Saul Nizahle in the German edition) in the 1981 album ''L'Odyssée d'Astérix'' ("[[Asterix and the Black Gold]]"), which is dedicated to Goscinny's memory.

==Awards and honors==
*1974: [[Adamson Awards|Adamson Award]] for best international comic strip artist, Sweden
*2005: Inducted in the [[Eisner Award|Will Eisner Hall of Fame]] as a Judges' choice, U.S.

Since 1996, the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award|René Goscinny Award]] is presented at the yearly [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]] in France as an encouragement for young comic writers.

According to [[UNESCO]]'s [[Index Translationum]], Goscinny, as of August 2017, was the [[list of most-translated individual authors|20th most-translated author]], with 2,200 translations of his work.<ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsstatexp.aspx?crit1L=5&nTyp=min&topN=50 |title=Index Translationum - "TOP 50" Author |publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |author=UNESCO Statistics |work=Official website of UNESCO |access-date=12 August 2017 }}</ref>

On 23 January 2020, a life-sized bronze statue of Goscinny was unveiled near his former home in Paris. It was the first public statue in Paris dedicated to a comic book author.<ref>{{cite news |title=By Toutatis! France unveils statue to Asterix creator |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200123-by-toutatis-france-unveils-statue-to-asterix-creator |access-date=27 January 2020 |agency=AFP |publisher=France24.com |date=23 January 2020}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable" id="noveltable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
|1968|| ''[[Asterix and Cleopatra (film)|Asterix and Cleopatra]]'' || Co-director || Also voiced Commentator (uncredited)
|-
|1976|| ''[[The Twelve Tasks of Asterix]] || Co-director, co-writer, co-producer
|-
|1978|| ''[[La Ballade des Dalton]]'' || [[Jolly Jumper]], Lucky Luke's horse || Voice, (final film role)
|}

==Studios Idéfix==
{{Infobox company
| name = Studios Idéfix 
| image = Idéfix_Studios.jpg
| image_caption = As seen in [[The Twelve Tasks of Asterix]].
| foundation= 1st April, 1974
| founders = '''René Goscinny'''<br>'''[[Georges Dargaud]]'''<br>[[Albert Uderzo]]<br>[[Morris (cartoonist) | Morris]]
| defunct = 1st April, 1978
| fate = '''Closed''' due to the death of Goscinny
}}

'''Studios Idéfix''' was an animation studio founded on April 1st, 1974 by Goscinny, [[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo]] and [[Morris (cartoonist) | Morris]].

Its logo, designed by Uderzo, is a parody of [[MGM]]'s logo, with [[Dogmatix]] (known in French as Idéfix) instead of [[Leo the Lion (MGM) |Leo]] and a banner reading "Delirant Isti Romanii", instead of "Arts Gratia Arts".

===History===

In the fall of 1973, Goscinny, Uderzo, Morris and their publisher [[Georges Dargaud]] joined forces to create their own [[animation studio]], the Idéfix studios.<ref name="CinémathèqueP129">{{harvsp|Goscinny and Cinema 2017|p=129}}.</ref> At the time, launching the creation of a [[cartoon]] feature film in [[France]] was complex,<ref name="CinémathèqueP129"/> considering that [[France]] no longer had a major animation studio ever since the closure in 1952 of [[Les Gémeaux]], ruined by the project of ''[[The King and the Bird|The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep]]''.

Prior to Idéfix, the works of the founders were animated and adapted to films by [[Raymond Leblanc| Belvision Studios]], based at [[Brussels]] in [[Belgium]].
As the founders themselves said, 

{{Quote|Goscinny and I were very unhappy watching the previous films, even if the public had followed them. The first two films were not a claim to fame for us. And we had to go through the premieres{{dubious |I guess it's a mistranslation, "premieres" is wrong and what's meant is "the first [2 movies]". See talk-page. |date= November 2024}} several times… By dint of seeing these flaws again and again, which we felt more and more because we knew them better, they had become enormous! For this one, we can avoid this kind of thing. Goscinny and I are doing the storyboarding and we hope to oversee everything. Because this time the cartoon will be produced in Paris, by a studio that we created ourselves. We will be both authors and directors, we will work really closely with the animators. If we're embarking on this adventure, it's because we've pulled out all the stops!|[[Albert Uderzo]]}}{{cn |date= November 2024}} 

{{Quote|It’s an old childhood dream that we had with Albert Uderzo, who actually started out in cartoons. It’s the culmination of ten years of work, because we started making cartoons in other studios. It took ten years before we could have our own studios and make the films the way we wanted them. We did it, I must say, thanks to [[Asterix (character)|Asterix]], who is a miracle character and who is our star, and who allowed us in many ways to realize this dream.| René Goscinny}}{{cn |date= November 2024}} 

René Goscinny called Henri Gruel to constitute the technical and artistic teams of the Idéfix studios. The latter directed several animated short films and was responsible for the sound effects of Asterix the Gaul and Asterix and Cleopatra, as well as the two productions by [[Pierre Tchernia]] scripted by Goscinny, Le Viager and Les Gaspards. Gruel gets Goscinny to share the artistic direction of the studios with Pierre Watrin, whom he considers to be an excellent designer, one of Paul Grimault's best former animators. Over several months, Gruel and Watrin contacted former artists and animators, as well as promising young artists. Most of [[Paul Grimault]]'s former animators then worked in small cartoon structures, and would be interested in the idea of working again in a real studio. However, the search for Pierre Watrin and Henri Gruel ultimately proved difficult, most of the former employees of the [[Paul Grimault |Les Gémeaux]] studios having converted to illustration and advertising. Talent was lacking and, at Goscinny's request, Henri Gruel sent his friend Serge Caillet, production director on live-action films, to the [[Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry]] to demand the opening of a animated cinema section to supply the studios with young artists, who thus offer employment to students as soon as they leave school. Eventually, they managed to produce their first feature film, [[The Twelve Tasks of Asterix]], with [[Halas and Batchelor]] and [[Dargaud]].{{cn |date= November 2024}}

However, in 1977, during the production of their second (and final) production, Goscinny died of a sudden heart attack. So, after the release of their second feature, [[La Ballade des Dalton| The Ballad of the Daltons]], a [[Lucky Luke]] feature, the studio ceased operations and closed shop permanently.{{cn |date= November 2024}}

===Films Produced===
Studio Idéfix produced only two feature films, namely,<br>
[[The Twelve Tasks of Asterix]] (1976)<br>
[[La Ballade des Dalton|The Ballad of the Daltons]] (1978)

==Bibliography==
{| class="wikitable" id="noveltable"
|-
!Series
!Years
!Magazine
!Albums
!Editor
!Artist
|- style="text-align:left;"
| ''[[Lucky Luke]]''{{Ref label|B|b|none}}
|1955–1977{{0}}
|''[[Spirou (magazine)|Spirou]]'' and ''[[Pilote]]''
|38
|[[Dupuis]] and [[Dargaud]]{{0}}
| [[Morris (comics)|Morris]]
|-
|''[[Modeste et Pompon]]''{{0}}{{Ref label|A|a|none}}{{Ref label|B|b|none}}
| 1955–1958
|''[[Tintin (magazine)|Tintin]]''
|{{0}}2
|[[Le Lombard|Lombard]]
| [[André Franquin]]
|-
|''[[Prudence Petitpas]]''
|1957–1959
|''Tintin''
|
|Lombard
| [[Maurice Maréchal (comics artist)|Maurice Maréchal]]{{0}}
|-
|''Signor Spaghetti''
|1957–1965
|''Tintin''
|15
|Lombard
| [[Dino Attanasio]]
|-
|''[[Oumpah-pah]]''
|1958–1962
|''Tintin''
|{{0}}3
|Lombard
| [[Albert Uderzo]]
|-
|''Strapontin''
|1958–1964
|''Tintin''
|{{0}}4
| Lombard
| [[Berck (comics)|Berck]]
|-
|''[[Astérix]]''{{Ref label|B|b|none}}
| 1959–1977
|''Pilote''
|24
|Dargaud
| [[Albert Uderzo]]
|-
|''[[Le Petit Nicolas]]''
|1959–1965
|''Pilote''
|{{0}}5
|Denoël
| [[Jean-Jacques Sempé|Sempé]]
|-
|''[[Iznogoud]]''{{Ref label|B|b|none}}
|1962–1977
|''Record'' and ''Pilote''{{0}}
|14
| Dargaud
| [[Jean Tabary]]
|-
|''[[Les Dingodossiers]]''
|1965–1967
|''Pilote''
|{{0}}3
| Dargaud
| [[Marcel Gotlieb|Gotlib]]
|}

{{refbegin}}
*a. &nbsp; {{Note label|A|a|none}} As part of a writers' team coming up with gags.
*b. &nbsp; {{Note label|B|b|none}}The series ''Lucky Luke'', ''Modeste et Pompon'', ''Asterix'' and ''Iznogoud'' were continued by other writers after Goscinny's death.
{{refend}}

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==References==
{{refbegin}}
* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs2/goscinny.htm Goscinny publications in ''Pilote''], [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs2/goscinny.htm ''Spirou''], [http://bdoubliees.com/journaltintin/auteurs2/goscinny.htm French ''Tintin''] and [http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/auteurs2/goscinny.htm Belgian ''Tintin''] BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}}
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-2220-BD-Goscinny-Rene.html Goscinny albums] Bedetheque {{in lang|fr}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516014331/http://www.goscinny.net/ Goscinny official site] {{in lang|fr}}
* [http://www.asterix.com Astérix official site]
* [http://www.dupuis.com/servlet/jpecat?pgm=VIEW_AUTHOR&lang=UK&AUTEUR_ID=95 On Dupuis.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080615205911/http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/goscinny.shtml Goscinny biography] on Asterix International!
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/g/goscinny.htm Goscinny biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111003123159/http://www.librairiegoscinny.com/spip.php?rubrique114 Daughter Ann] lighting Hanuka candles with family.
* {{IMDb name|0331453}}

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