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Getting a jump on the Smurfs’ 50th anniversary

January 14th, 2008
Author Kevin Melrose

Peyo (Pierre Culliford), with a Smurf

This ABC News story about the 50th anniversary of The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) botches a key fact: Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s little blue creatures didn’t first appear on this day in 1958. The year is right, but they didn’t come along until Oct. 23, in a Johan & Peewit story in Le Journal de Spirou.

However, I presume the rest of the article, which mentions yearlong plans in Belgium to celebrate the occasion, is correct.

 

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4 Responses to “Getting a jump on the Smurfs’ 50th anniversary”
  1. Mysterious Stranger Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Okay, smurfiness of this smurfy story aside, can you imagine the uproar if that picture with Peyo, a Smurf statue and a lit cigarette had been released as a current shot today? I can see it now… the newest Smurf to join the mushroom village… Smokey Smurf!!!

  2. Raymond Neal Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    Oui, mon ami. Zat is how we French inhale. Let me now teach you “le hotboxing.”

  3. AdamYJ Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    What the smurf?

  4. GAZOO Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 1:45 am

    Is that all, no mention of the DVDs to come out or the CGI movies on the way, please expand on theis article.

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