25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992, Belgium) Peyo, pseudonym of Pierre Culliford, is known all over the world as the creator of the ‘Smurfs’, or ‘Les Schtroumpfs’ as they are called in French. The origins of these funny blue dwarves lie in Peyo’s medieval ‘Johan et Pirlouit’ series, that appeared in Spirou magazine during its glory days in the 1950s. The huge popularity of the Smurfs resulted in an animated feature film (1975), a 3D feature film (2011), an extensive merchandise line, a Hanna-Barbera…
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