The word "Schtroumpf" is born during a meal Peyo was having with his friend in which, having temporarily forgotten the word "salt", Peyo asked him to pass "the Schtroumpf".
The two continued to talk, in French, using that word instead of recognised terms, and so the concept was born.
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Peyo had two major role models in his work: Hergé, for his simplicity and his purity as a story teller, and Walt Disney, for his ability to build an empire.
The three Smurfs movies, released worldwide in theaters and on DVD in 2011, 2013 and 2017, earned over 1 billion dollars altogether.
The publishing programme includes over 300 available titles, sold in over 70 countries.
In 1981 TV series of 272 episodes is still distributed in over 100 countries worldwide, including Netflix and iTunes.
At any given moment, an episode from the Smurfs series is being broadcast somewhere in the world!
“ The Smurfs couldn’t have been green” explains Peyo’s widow, Nine, the one who chose the colours, “because they would have got lost in the vegetation. Red would have been too bright, and yellow not very jolly. We were left with
blue by a process of elimination! ”
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