Pilote

From The Asterix Project

Pilote was French comics magazine founded in 1959 by several comics artists and writers, including Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny, published originally by Radio-Luxeumburg in it's first year and Dargaud who bought the magazine and saved it from financial problems. During it's height, Pilote was considered a showcase for many talented French and Belgian comic creators of the day, debuting such well-known titles as Barbe-Rouge(Redbeard), whose lead characters would later be parioded as the Asterix Pirates; Lucky Luke, written by Goscinny; and several British imports, but the true break-out hit of the magazine, was Asterix who made his debut in Pilote issue 0. Unlike, Asterix, Pilote did not have such a longivity by the 1970s, an aging readership and the lack for edgeir, more adult comics, caused the magazine to try to update it's material and publication changed from weekly to monthly, sales continuted to decline til the end of the next decade, when Dargaud suspended and cancelled Pilote's publication in 1989.