Tag Archive | "Smurfs"

Sieg Smurf !

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

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So you thought that the Smurfs comics were harmless tales for children about funny little dwarves ?  Well, think again, buster.  According to French author Antoine Buéno, they are nothing less than totalitarian, machistic and racist.  Or so he says in his new book Le Petit Livre Bleu (The Little Blue Book), that will hit [...]

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From our continental correspondent – New Smurfs Failer…

Friday, March 18, 2011

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OK, so this year, two prime Belgian comics will be getting a 3D animation treatment.  When it comes to the Tintin movie, all visuals are closely guarded, and only released one tiny little bit at a time.  With the Smurfs, the producers are a little more daring : after a first teaser, which hardly featured [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – More Cartoons With Small Creatures

Monday, June 28, 2010

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The teaser poster for the Krostons movie In 1968, in the midst of the roaring revolution of the late sixties, Paul Deliège (1931-2005) felt a little stuck in his series, Bobo, which had been running in Spirou magazine for about five years, and came up with the perfect antidote for the sweet, little, blue gnomes [...]

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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 – the Smurfs at the World Fair

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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The Flemish comics blog Strip Turnhout just announced that the Smurfs will be present at the coming World Fair 2010 in Shanghai, China.  The little blue men will be the official mascots of the Belgian-European pavillion, which will open on May 15th.  They were selected because of their Belgian roots (they were created by Belgian [...]

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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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