کتاب Le Petit Nicolas a des ennuis (رمان فرانسوی نیکلاس کوچولو در دردسر است)

Best known as the author of Asterix, Goscinny is

also the talent behind the scenario of Lucky Luke, the hugely popular

comic book of ‘the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow’. Goscinny

was born on 11 August 1926 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, the son

of Stanislas (Simkha) from Warsaw and of Anna Beresniak from

Khodorkow, a small Ukrainian village. In 1928, his parents took him to

Argentina, where his father, a chemical engineer, had been

seconded. He spent a happy childhood in Buenos Aires, and studied at

the French Lyce just before the Second World War. He had a habit of

making every one laugh in class, probably to compensate for a natural

shyness. He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated

stories which he enjoyed reading. In 1945, he emigrated to the United

States. “I went to the United States to work with Walt Disney” he was

to say later “but Walt Disney didn’t know that”. He found himself in

New York, jobless, alone and totally broke.