![]() ![]() Mr Uderzo responded that he had fired his daughter, and her husband, because of their "filial ingratitude and obsession with money". Sylvie accused her father, in an open letter to Le Monde, of "betraying" the spirit of Asterix by selling off a "symbol of France's cultural heritage" to a company "driven mostly by profit". ![]() ![]() He also agreed – reversing a previous commitment – that other writers and artists could extend the Asterix series after his death. In 2008, he sold the company and the Asterix rights to France's biggest publisher, Hachette. In 2007, Mr Uderzo fired Sylvie from her job with his publishing company. In the past two years, the good natured façade of the Asterix saga has been shattered by a blistering public row between Albert Uderzo, 82, who is still drawing and writing, and his only daughter, Sylvie. ![]()
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