The characters proved to be a huge success, and the first independent Smurf stories appeared in Spirou in 1959, together with the first merchandising.
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Their first full appearance was published in Spirou on October 23, 1958. In this manner, they met a tiny, blue-skinned humanoid in white clothing called a "Schtroumpf", followed by his numerous peers who looked just like him, with an elderly leader who wore red clothing and had a white beard. The adventure involved them recovering a magic flute, which required some sorcery by the wizard Homnibus. In 1958, Spirou magazine started to publish the Johan et Pirlouit story La Flûte à six trous ("The Flute with Six Holes"). Johan serves as a brave young page to the king, and Peewit (called Pirlouit (pronounced Peer-loo-ee) in the original French version.) functions as his faithful, if boastful and cheating, midget sidekick.
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The Smurfs franchise began as a comic and expanded into advertising, films, TV series, ice capades, video games, theme parks, and toys.Īt the time he came up with the idea for the Smurfs, Peyo was the creator, artist, and writer of the Franco-Belgian comics series titled Johan et Pirlouit (translated to English as Johan and Peewit), set in Europe during the Middle Ages and including elements of sword-and-sorcery.
The word "smurf" is the original Dutch translation of the French "schtroumpf", which, according to Peyo, is a word he invented during a meal with fellow cartoonist André Franquin when he could not remember the word salt. The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps, which came to represent freedom during the modern era. "Smurfette" was the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series. There are more than 100 Smurf characters, and their names are based on adjectives that emphasise their characteristics, such as "Jokey Smurf", who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow Smurfs. The Smurfs was first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (the pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958, wherein they were known as Les Schtroumpfs. The Smurfs ( French: Les Schtroumpfs Dutch: De Smurfen) is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. The “diamond ring” is the most perfect ring I’ve seen so far."The Flute with Six Holes" ( French: "La Flûte à six trous") (1958) in comic Johan and Peewit The recent Total Solar Eclipse across the USA was a rare event that my friends and I watched from Laurens, SC on August 21, 2017. People taking part in ceremony, horses and oxen as well, were all dressed elaborately, like this girl. Unintentionally, I happened upon an initiation ceremony in a village near Bagan. Was I wrong!ĭorothy Thompson, Richland Center, Wisconsin After earlier trips to Antarctica and Svalbard, I had thought that adding Greenland to my TCC destinations as #225 would be the highlight of this expedition. That I took it with a Sony Cybershot pocket camera proves that one need not have thousands of dollars of equipment to capture such a “money shot”- patience, composition, timing and luck often play a bigger role. Taken off the northeast coast of Baffin Island in Arctic Canada from the bridge of Lindblad’s National Geographic Explorer this July, only two of us out of a 100+ people on deck seem to have caught him perfectly in flight. Of many “once-in-a-lifetime” photos over the years, this “Bear in the Air” is the one that made me truly gasp when I lowered my camera and saw what I had captured. Click for contest details » “Bear in the Air,” Baffin Island, Canada / Photo: David Brezic Our next photo ccontest will have a transportation theme. Don’t give up if you weren’t the lucky one-keep on submitting. It’s hard to pick just one amongst so many outstanding ones.
Congratulations to David! Thank you to everybody who submitted photos.
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