The Non-Jewish Origin of Asterix and Obelix

I was recently surprised by the news that René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s iconic series of children’s cartoon adventures titled Asterix and featuring the eponymous character and his sidekick Obelix would be the subject of an exhibit at London’s Jewish Museum. (1)

Reading Francine Wolfisz’s article on the subject hinted as to the reason why: René Goscinny was a jew.

To be more specific his parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny and Hanna Bereśniak-Gościnna. They were both jews from Poland and the Ukraine respectively. (2)

Now while it is certainly true that Rene Gościnny was a jew and was the original writer of the text for Asterix series. Wolfisz deliberately downplays nay obliterates Albert Uderzo’s role in the creation of the Asterix series. (3) She also forgets to mention that Gościnny only wrote Asterix for eighteen years – between the creation of Asterix in 1959 and Gościnny’s death in 1977 – while Uderzo wrote Asterix for thirty-one years (between Goscinny’s death in 1977 and Uderzo’s retirement in 2009).

Not only that but Uderzo illustrated the Asterix series for fifty years, which – as Asterix is solely cartoons with relatively little text beyond the limited speech between the characters - means that he is really the primary creator and founder of the series not Gościnny, because it is the illustrator not the writer who is key because it is cartoons not a written novel.

Thus we can see that Uderzo has far more claim to be awarded the title of the creator of Asterix, while Goscinny merely supplied some of the early stories. Therefore it can be decisively argued that Asterix is really of non-jewish not jewish origin.

References

(1) http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/rene-certainly-had-some-gaul/

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goscinny#Early_life

(3) http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/rene-certainly-had-some-gaul/