COMIC ARTIST

René Goscinny

1926 - 1977

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René Goscinny (French: [ʁəne ɡɔsini], Polish: [ɡɔɕˈt͡ɕinnɨ] ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Astérix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. He was raised primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schools, and he lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist Morris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Goscinny has received more than 977,513 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). René Goscinny is the 3rd most popular comic artist (up from 4th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from France (up from 407th in 2019) and the most popular French Comic Artist.

René Goscinny is most famous for being the co-creator of the Asterix series. He also wrote the Lucky Luke series.

Memorability Metrics

  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, René Goscinny ranks 3 out of 226. Before him are Stan Lee, and Osamu Tezuka. After him are Hergé, Akira Toriyama, Albert Uderzo, Peyo, Joseph Barbera, Carl Barks, Jean Giraud, Hugo Pratt, and Morris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, René Goscinny ranks 13. Before him are Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Dario Fo, Andrzej Wajda, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. After him are Klaus Kinski, Sathya Sai Baba, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Jerry Lewis, and Ben Roy Mottelson. Among people deceased in 1977, René Goscinny ranks 10. Before him are Vladimir Nabokov, Wernher von Braun, Anthony Eden, Stefania Turkewich, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and Ludwig Erhard. After him are Roberto Rossellini, Jacques Prévert, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Makarios III, Alexey Stakhanov, and Kurt Schuschnigg.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Goscinny ranks 307 out of 6,770. Before him are François Mauriac (1885), Jacques de Molay (1243), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), John I of France (1316), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), and François de La Rochefoucauld (1613). After him are Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Constantine II (316), Chlothar I (498), Raymond Poincaré (1860), and Claude Lorrain (1600).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, René Goscinny ranks 1. After him are Albert Uderzo (1927), Jean Giraud (1938), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), Cabu (1938), Philippe Honoré (1941), Émile Cohl (1857), Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Martin (1921), and Gotlib (1934).

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