Tag Archive | "Peyo"

Here’s some smurfy goodness…

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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So you read the damning reviews of the Smurfs movie, and you at least felt some slight unease at the first glimpses of the blue dwarves in the trailer, and this has really brought you down.  Were these the cool cartoon characters you knew from when you were a kid ?   Could it be we [...]

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Peyo in Paris

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Those among you who have a soft spot for the little blue dwarves that are the Smurfs, who are awaiting the upcoming Smurfs movie with dread in their hearts and would rather dwell on the fact that Smurfs creator Peyo originally created some actually pretty fine comics, and who happen to be in Paris, are [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Finally: real Smurf stories (again)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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A great injustice is about to be set right, thanks to publisher Papercutz. In an announcement on its website, the publisher of graphic novels based on mega-popular children’s fare such as Geronimo Stilton, Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, presented a new series of graphic novels featuring Belgium’s finest dwarfs : the Smurfs. To us, Belgians, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – when we were very young (even though others were slightly less so)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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Here’s a little something from the past that should be cherished.  In 1978, Pierre Culliford, born in 1928 as the son of an expatriate Brit and better known as Peyo, celebrated his 50th birthday.  To honour that occasion, Yvan Delporte, the legendary editor of Spirou Magazine (and subject of a new, wonderful book by Christelle [...]

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Smurf flick

Friday, July 10, 2009

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The BBC announces  (via Hollywood Reporter) that director Raja Gosnell has been signed up to helm a feature length Smurfs movie. Yes, Peyo’s little blue folks who were celebrating their fiftieth anniversary on the Continent (where they remain well known, unlike here)  just last year, are coming to the big screen in glorious 3D (as [...]

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