The Smurfs (comics)
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The Smurfs is a Belgian comic series, created by cartoonist Peyo. The titular creatures were introduced as supporting characters in an already established series, Johan and Peewit in 1958, and starred
Smurfette statue in Middelkerke
Bande dessinée
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Bandes dessinées, also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics, are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. These countries have a long tradition in
The Smurfs (comics)
…as supporting characters in an already established series, Johan and Peewit in 1958, and starred in their own series from 1959. More than 40 Smurf comic albums have been created, 16 of them by Peyo. Originally, the Smurf stories appeared in Spirou magazine with reprints in many different magazines, but after…
The French comic Les Pieds Nickelés (1954 book cover): an early 20th-century forerunner of the modern Franco-Belgian comic
Close Hergé-collaborator and magazine contributor Bob de Moor
Uderzo (Brussels, September 2005)
Goscinny (l) & Morris (Amsterdam, May 1971)