Pierre Culliford, 64, Creator of Smurfs

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: December 25, 1992 | Copyright information

BRUSSELS, Belgium Pierre Culliford, whose blue, four-fingered Smurfs defied his prediction that they would be a short-lived fad, died Thursday. He was 64.

Mr. Culliford, known by the pen name "Peyo," died at his Brussels home one month after the publication of his 16th Smurf book, said his publisher, Editions Lombard SA. The announcement gave no cause of death.

In the 34 years since the Smurfs first tumbled onto the cartoon scene, their adventures have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Mr. Culliford, born in Brussels in 1928, became a cartoonist for a Brussels film company in ...

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