Rene Goscinny was a French comics editor and author, who is well known for the comic book Asterix, which he produced with artist Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.
Goscinny started life in Paris in 1926, to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland; his parents were Stanislaw Simkha Goscinny , a chemical engineer from Warsaw, Poland, and Anna Beresniak-goscinna from Chodorkow, a small village near Zhitomir, in the Second Polish Republic, now Ukraine. Claude, Rene's older brother started life 6 years earlier; on 10 December 1920. Stanislaw and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. The Goscinnys moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, two years after Rene's birth, because of a chemical engineer post Stanislaw had obtained there.
(Rene Goscinny photo #2)
He spent a happy childhood in Buenos Aires, and studied in the French schools there. He had a habit of being the Class Clown, probably to compensate for a natural shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated novels which he enjoyed reading.
(Rene Goscinny photo #3)
In December 1943, the year after he finished colledge, 17 year old Goscinny lost his dad to a cerebral hemorrhage, forcing him to find a job. The next year, he got his first job, as an assistant accountant in a tire recovery factory, and when he was laid off the following year, he became a junior artist in an advertising agency.
Rene Goscinny
