After being laid off the following years, Goscinny became a junior illustrator in an advertising agency. The next year, he got his first job, as an assistant accountant in a tire recovery factory. In December 1943, the year after Goscinny graduated from lycée or high school, his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke). He started drawing very early on, inspired by the illustrated stories which he enjoyed reading. He was often the 'class clown', probably to compensate for a natural shyness. René had a happy childhood in Buenos Aires and studied in French-language schools there. When René was two, the Gościnnys moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, because his father had been hired as a chemical engineer there.

Stanisław and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. Claude, Goscinny's older brother, was six years older, born on 10 December 1920. Goscinny's maternal grandfather, Abraham Lazare Berezniak, founded a printing company. His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from Warsaw, and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków ( Ходорків), a small village near Kyiv in Ukraine. Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to Jewish immigrants from Poland. Goscinny also wrote a series of children's books known as Le Petit Nicolas ( Little Nicolas) illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series Lucky Luke (in what was considered the series' golden age). He was raised primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schools, as well as lived in the United States for a short period of time. René Goscinny ( French:, Polish: ( listen) 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Astérix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo.

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