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Rene Goscinny began life without much fanfare, apart from the joyous reception given him by his parents, in 1926 in Paris, France. His parents moved to South America when he was young and it is there that he grew up in Buenos Aires. With aspirations of being a cartoonist he began work at seventeen years of age at an advertising agency in Argentina. Emigrating to the United States of America in 1945 he settled in New York to continue his pursuit of his dream. His time there was difficult however. One of the highlights was meeting Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder(who will later go on to found the seminal and iconic "Mad Magazine") when he was hired on as a cartoonist, in 1949 at the studio they were also working for. They would remain friends all their lives.

In 1951 he would leave the USA for Europe finding employment with Belgian press agency, World Press at their Brussels branch. It is here that he would meet Albert Uderzo and the course of his life would begin to change inexorably. Instead of drawing he began writing, often teaming up with good friend Uderzo creating Jehon Pistolet, Luc Junior and others. The Indian character, Oumpah-Pah blossomed to life under their combined talents. His new found talent for writing enabled him to team up with Morris writing stories for Lucky Luke for the magazine Spirou.

His body of work(writing) includes Oumpah-pah for Uderzo, Spaghetti for Attanasio, Straponti for Berck, Prudence Petitpas for Marechal, "Modeste et Pompon" for Franquin and many more.

In 1956 he, Uderzo and Charlier left World Press to form Edipresse/Edifranc which created comic books to be used as advertisements for different products. The formation of this company was only made possible by one Jean Hebrard who, after inheriting a large fortune, provides the necessary money to start their small company.

Goscinny would have a huge impact on the development of the comic book and was instrumental in discovering new talents for the comic book world.

In May 1968 he left Pilote after nine years of affiliation with the magazine that shot him to fame and fortune. He would continue to write stories for Asterix, Lucky Luke and Zinged as he pursued his own works.

Sadly, in 1977 Goscinny died prematurely at the relatively young age of fifty-one.