He had helped to make people around the world dream big and small...
The cartoonist, whose name appears on hundreds of millions of copies of the adventures of the die-hard Gauls since 1961, and one of the "dads" of Asterix Park, died today at the age of 92 from a heart attack.
"Tribute to this great man whose pencil, imagination and impertinence have brought together and made whole generations laugh. His work will remain universal as a bearer of sharing and a creator of social bonds, key values that are all the more fundamental in the situation we are going through. We will always bring this legacy to life through this Asterix Park for which he has worked so hard at our side and also, no doubt, somewhere, in each of our sites. "Dominique Marcel, Chairman and CEO of the CDA.
The cartoonist, whose name appears on hundreds of millions of copies of the adventures of the die-hard Gauls since 1961, and one of the "dads" of Asterix Park, died today at the age of 92 from a heart attack.
"Tribute to this great man whose pencil, imagination and impertinence have brought together and made whole generations laugh. His work will remain universal as a bearer of sharing and a creator of social bonds, key values that are all the more fundamental in the situation we are going through. We will always bring this legacy to life through this Asterix Park for which he has worked so hard at our side and also, no doubt, somewhere, in each of our sites. "Dominique Marcel, Chairman and CEO of the CDA.
