Editing René Goscinny (section)

==First works==
The following year, Goscinny worked on an illustrated version of the [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]] novella ''[[La Fille aux yeux d'or|The Girl with the Golden Eyes]]''.<ref>Honoré de Balzac, ''La fille aux yeux d'or'', Paris : Éditions du livre français, collection "Les classiques du XIXe", 1946.</ref> In April of that year he returned to New York.

There he went through the most difficult period of his life. For a while, Goscinny was jobless, alone, and living in poverty. By 1948, though, he had begun working in a small studio, where he became friends with future ''[[MAD Magazine]]'' contributors [[Will Elder]], [[Jack Davis (cartoonist)|Jack Davis]], and [[Harvey Kurtzman]].<ref name="lambiek"/> Goscinny became art director at [[Kunen Publishers]], where he wrote four books for children.

Around this time he met two Belgian comic artists, Joseph Gillain, better known as [[Jijé]], and Maurice de Bevere, also known as [[Morris (comics)|Morris]]. Morris lived in the US for six years, having already started his cartoon series ''[[Lucky Luke]].'' (He and Goscinny collaborated on this, with Goscinny writing it from 1955 until his death in 1977, a period described as its golden age).<ref name="lambiek"/>

[[Georges Troisfontaines]], chief of the [[World Press agency]], convinced Goscinny to return to France in 1951 in order to work for his agency as the head of the [[Paris]] office. There he met [[Albert Uderzo]], with whom he started a longtime collaboration.<ref name="lambiek"/><ref name="lagardere">{{cite web | last = Lagardère | title = Release of the 33rd Asterix volume | url =http://www.lagardere.com/us/actualites/detail_actu.cfm?idt=9&idn=5994&nav=0 }}</ref> They started out with some work for ''[[Bonnes Soirées]]'', a women's magazine for which Goscinny wrote ''Sylvie''. Goscinny and Uderzo also launched the series ''Jehan Pistolet'' and ''Luc Junior,'' in the magazine ''La Libre Junior''.

In 1955, Goscinny, together with Uderzo, [[Jean-Michel Charlier]], and [[Jean Hébrad]], founded the syndicate Edipress/Edifrance. The syndicate launched publications such as ''Clairon'' for the factory union and ''Pistolin'' for a chocolate company. Goscinny and Uderzo cooperated on the series ''Bill Blanchart'' in ''Jeannot'', ''Pistolet'' in ''Pistolin,'' and ''Benjamin et Benjamine'' in the magazine of the same name. Under the pseudonym Agostini, Goscinny wrote ''[[Le petit Nicolas|Le Petit Nicolas]]'' for [[Jean-Jacques Sempé]] in ''[[Moustique|Le Moustique]].'' It was later published in ''[[Sud-Ouest (magazine)|Sud-Ouest]]'' and ''[[Pilote]]'' magazines.

In 1956, Goscinny began a collaboration with ''[[Tintin (magazine)|Tintin]]'' magazine. He wrote some short stories for [[Jo Angenot]] and [[Albert Weinberg]], and worked on ''Signor Spaghetti'' with [[Dino Attanasio]], ''Monsieur Tric'' with [[Bob de Moor]], ''[[Prudence Petitpas]]'' with [[Maurice Maréchal (comics artist)|Maurice Maréchal]], ''Globul le Martien'' and ''Alphonse'' with [[Tibet (comics)|Tibet]], ''Strapontin'' with [[Arthur Berckmans|Berck]] and ''[[Modeste et Pompon]]'' with [[André Franquin]]. An early creation with Uderzo, ''[[Oumpah-pah]]'', was also adapted for serial publication in ''Tintin'' from 1958 to 1962.<ref name="asterix int">{{cite web | last = Asterix International! | title = Albert Uderzo | url =http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/uderzo.shtml }}</ref> In addition, Goscinny appeared in the magazines ''[[Paris-Flirt]]'' (''Lili Manequin'' with [[Will (comics)|Will]]) and ''[[Vaillant (magazine)|Vaillant]]'' (''Boniface et Anatole'' with Jordom, ''Pipsi'' with Godard).