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Schtroumpf is pronounced like the German word ' Strumpf' meaning 'sock'.

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The Smurfs shared more adventures with Johan and Pirlouit, got their own series and all subsequent publications of the original story were retitled La Flûte à six Schtroumpfs (also the title of the movie version of the story). 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 Pirlouit (pronounced Peer-loo-ee) 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.

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'The Flute with Six Holes' ( French: 'La Flûte à six trous') (1958) in comic Johan and Peewit