![]() ![]() The duo had extraordinary combined gifts. Uderzo died on 24 March 2020, having produced Asterix comics for almost 60 years – 40 of those without Goscinny, who died in 1979. Not since Anne Vallayer-Coster has an artist rendered cooked meat as so obviously, enticingly tasty. When Asterix’s stalwart companion Obelix tucks in, he does so with his entire face, and the spittle flies – or is it sweat, or just emphatic enthusiasm? Whatever, the mouth waters in sympathy. He depicted roast boar with an unctuous, dripping golden sheen, obviously juicy even on the dry page. This conviction stemmed from Uderzo’s exquisite comic artwork. ![]() Even though I had no idea how they tasted, I just knew that they would be delicious, utterly delicious. ![]() I had never seen a real boar, wild or tame, alive or dead, but René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s Asterix books made those forest-dwelling critters familiar indeed. The roast boar is what comes to mind first. ![]()
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