If you found a group of tiny blue communists living in mushrooms in your backyard, you would call an exterminator. In Belgium, they made them stars–the Smurfs have been featured in comics, cartoons ...

In the comics, Smurfette was the only female Smurf, created by Gargamel, the Smurfs' enemy, in order to distract and trap them. She was later rescued by Papa Smurf and turned into a real Smurf. She ...

Once upon a time, I spent a heady childhood summer driving my parents insane with my Smurf obsession. I devoured the original Belgian comics in English translation (along with the adventures of ...

1. The original term and accompanying language came during a meal the creator Peyo was having. He momentarily forgot the world "salt" and asked his dining partner for some "schtroumpf". His friend ...