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Peyo

Belgian comics cartoonist and scriptwriter

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1928

Place of Birth: Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1992

Profession: screenwriter, comics artist, cartoonist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Peyo

  • Pierre Culliford (French: [kylif??]; 25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992) was a Belgian cartoonist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo ([pejo]).
  • His best-known works are the comic strips The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in which the Smurfs first appeared.After working briefly at a Belgian animation studio, Peyo began making comic strips for daily newspapers such as Le Soir shortly after World War II.
  • At the beginning of the 1950s, he brought his character Johan to the magazine Spirou, whom he soon gave a companion, the diminutive Peewit; the strip soon became a staple of the weeklies.
  • Peyo introduced the Smurfs in the Johan and Peewit storyline The Magic Flute in 1958; the characters quickly supplanted Johan and Peewit in popularity and left them behind for their own series. In 1960, Peyo founded a studio to accommodate his assistants such as François WalthĂ©ry, Gos, and Marc Wasterlain and created the series Steven Strong and Jacky and CĂ©lestin.
  • Peyo's output diminished in the 1970s, at first due to the time he invested in the film The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976); in the 1980s, he put in more time, despite recurring health problems, into an American adaptation of The Smurfs as an animated television series.
  • After the series concluded, he left his publisher Dupuis to found his own publishing house, Cartoon Creation, and a cartoon magazine, Schtroumpf!, which soon folded due to management problems.
  • He joined Le Lombard in 1992 but died a few months later.
  • Since his death, Peyo's children have continued to promote his work under the brand "Peyo".

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