Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo comes out of retirement to pen cartoons in memory of Charlie Hebdo victims
"Charlie Hebdo and Asterix are very different, of course. I am not going to change my stripes," said 87-year-old Uderzo.
"I simply wanted to show my friendship for these cartoonists who have paid with their lives."
The Albert-Rene publishing house that holds the rights to the Asterix books said Uderzo "was close to Cabu", or Jean Cabut, one of the cartoonists shot dead by two gunmen who stormed Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices in an attack that claimed 12 lives.
I love Asterix and Obelix and their little dogmatix. Used to read those comic books and collect them.
