Editing Albert Uderzo (section)

==Early life==
Uderzo was born in [[Fismes]] in the [[Marne (department)|Marne department]] of France on 25 April 1927 as the fourth child of Italian immigrants Silvio Uderzo (1888–1985), a carpenter,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/wikifrat?lang=en&pz=honore+gabriel&nz=de+riqueti+de+mirabeau&p=silvio&n=uderzo|title=Silvio Uderzo, 1888–1985|website=geneanet}}</ref> and his wife Iria Uderzo ({{née|Crestini}}, 1897–1997).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://geneafrance.com/?n=CRESTINI|title=Liste des décès (INSEE)|website=geneafrance}}</ref> His parents had met in 1915 in [[La Spezia]], where Silvio Uderzo was recovering after being wounded while serving in the [[Royal Italian Army]] during [[World War I]]. Uderzo's mother, Iria Crestini, was working in the arsenals of La Spezia, along with many young Italian women at the time. Silvio was discharged from military service after the war, on 19 June 1919. The two became a couple and married shortly before the birth of their first child, Bruno (1920–2004). After Bruno, they had Rina in 1922. They moved from Italy to France with their then two children, first settling in [[Chauny]] in the [[Aisne departement]]. They changed location regularly. In Chauny, a son named Albert was born in 1925 but died of [[pneumonia]] at the age of 8 months. The Uderzos decided to name their next son in honor of the late brother. The name "Albert", that of the deceased brother, became the Italian "Alberto" because the registrar misunderstood Silvio Uderzo's heavy Italian accent.{{cn|date=October 2023}} The name "Aleandro" is in honor of Uderzo's paternal grandfather.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Uderzo: Der weite Weg zu Asterix|last=Uderzo|first=Albert|publisher=Horizont Verlag|year=1987|isbn=3770407008|edition=Horizont Klub 1987|location=Stuttgart|pages=11–17|language=de|translator-last=Skudelny|translator-first=Heide|chapter=1: Die Zeit der Lakritzenstangen 1927-1940|trans-chapter=1: The time of liquorice sticks 1927-1940|orig-year=1985|translator-last2=Wagner|translator-first2=Christine|translator-last3=Boerschel|translator-first3=Andreas}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iR6Jnlm2i14C|title=Albert Uderzo se raconte...|last1=Uderzo|first1=Albert|date=2008|publisher=Stock|isbn=9782234062726|pages=4–12|language=fr}}</ref>
[[File:Uderzo à Paris.jpg|thumb|Uderzo in his home studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, 2014]]

Uderzo was born on the morning of 25 April 1927 around 07:00. At this point, he was an Italian citizen rather than a French one. Uderzo was born with six fingers on each hand. The additional fingers were surgically removed early in childhood as a precaution, as the infant Uderzo would sometimes violently pull on them when enraged or annoyed.<ref name=":0" />

In 1929, the Uderzos moved to [[Clichy-sous-Bois]] in the eastern suburbs of Paris, the capital city of France. Here, Uderzo experienced elements of xenophobia against Italian immigrants during his childhood, even though he gained French citizenship in the year 1934. Clichy-sous-Bois, at the time a very politically left-leaning political district, held deep popular sentiments against [[Mussolini|Mussolini's]] dictatorship and its involvement in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Uderzo at one particular point became the target of the anger of a victim of Italian-German bombardment in the Spanish Civil War, and said a man spat in his face. However, apart from the occasional ethnic resentment against Italians, Uderzo viewed his childhood and education in Clichy-sous-Bois fondly in retrospect. His mother gave birth to two more children: Jeanne was born in 1932 and [[Marcel Uderzo|Marcel]] in 1933.<ref name=":0" />

Uderzo came in touch with the arts for the first time during kindergarten, where he was noted as talented for his age. Most of his siblings also shared certain artistic talents, and their mother used sheets of paper and pencils to give the children, especially her oldest son Bruno, something to do. Bruno became an inspiration for Albert and in turn, soon noted the younger brother's talent. At this point, Albert did not yet aim to become a professional artist later in life and instead dreamt about a career as a clown and, after dropping that aspiration, aimed to follow Bruno into the craft of aircraft engineering. At the same time, he came in contact with the [[United States|American]] [[Comics|comic]] and [[animated cartoon]] cultures, particularly with the early works of [[Walt Disney]] like [[Mickey Mouse universe|Mickey Mouse]] and [[Donald Duck universe|Donald Duck]]. The family moved to the Rue de Montreuil in the [[11th arrondissement of Paris]] in October 1938, changing both schools and the social vicinity. Although Albert, now with a Parisian accent, was no longer easily recognized as of Italian heritage, he nonetheless had problems in school. His only successful area in his educational pursuits was sketching and the arts. It would take him until around the age of 11 or 12 to go from sketching to painting in colors, however, which was when his parents discovered that Uderzo was [[Color blindness|color blind]]. From then on, Uderzo would use labels on his colors, but as he mostly stuck with black-and-white sketching, it would not make a huge impact on his artistic career either way.<ref name=":0" />

In September 1939, [[Invasion of Poland|Germany invaded Poland]] and [[Declarations of war during World War II|France declared war on Germany in response]]. Albert's father Silvio, by then 51, was too old to be conscripted into the French army, whereas Albert himself was too young at 12. Bruno, however, was of military age and was called to action, which he survived without injury. Albert soon finished his basic education at the age of 13 and decided to follow Bruno into aircraft engineering.<ref name=":0" />