Asterix creator Albert Uderzo sues daughter in dispute over literary estate The 86-year-old illustrator, who created the iconic series with writer René Goscinny half a century ago, has been in a bitter row with his daughter Sylvie and her husband since the pair were dismissed as managers of the company handling his estate in 2007. Uderzo and his wife have now counter-attacked, saying their daughter and her husband were not seeking reconciliation and were "introducing and extending legal procedures that have no foundation." "The sole purpose of these acts is to undermine our psychological integrity and to hasten our debility, in order to get their hands on our legacy, which they covet," they said in a statement. The 35 albums in the Asterix series, which follows the exploits of a village of wily Gauls as they resist Roman occupation, have sold 352 million copies worldwide, and spawned a dozen films and a theme park near Paris, Parc Asterix. The latest edition, "Asterix and the Picts," released in October, was the first in the series not written and illustrated by one of its original creators.