Died in his sleep after a heart attack and his death had NOTHING to do with coronavirus as some have posted.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52016721
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52016721
He ceated the famous stories - about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire - with his friend René Goscinny in 1959.
As well as illustrating the series, Urderzo took over the writing following Goscinny's death in 1977.
The books have sold 370 million copies worldwide, in dozens of languages, and several stories have been turned into cartoons and feature films.
The series continues to this day under new ownership, with the most recent book, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, released last October.
"Albert Uderzo died in his sleep at his home in Neuilly, after a heart attack that was not linked to the coronavirus," his son-in-law Bernard de Choisy told the AFP news agency.
There is a really nice video on the net, though showing his drawing action only, of Uderzo creating some of the Asterix family. This small film is a treat for those familiar with the Asterix books and shows how proficient he had become over decades of drawing the characters so that, even with only a very few deftly placed signature strokes, you can tell which of family-Asterix is to come onto the pages. How fast can you say, oh, that's . . ?
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