Perhaps we know them best through the animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, “The Smurfs.” Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Handy, Jokey and the troop of 96 others celebrated 50 years of Smurfmania. The late Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford “Peyo” introduced Smurfs to the world in a series of comic strips, making their first appearance in the Belgian comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou on October 23, 1958.
The Smurfs are a fictional group of small sky blue creatures who live somewhere in the woods. Forest dwellers who live in little white-capped mushroom homes, developed their own “Smurf” language in which nouns and verbs were interchanged. Their debut on U.S. television in 1981 launched their global rise to stardom and made the Smurfs a household name. A Smurf is a “Pitufo” in Spanish, a “Schlumpf” in German, “Nam Ching Ling” to the Chinese, a “Sumafa” in Japan and “Dardassim” in Hebrew.
Marking 50 years of Smurfdom, organizers are planning everything from a 3-D animation feature film expected to be released next year to new comic book collections and a remastered release of the popular 1980s television animated series.
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