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发信人: yiren (我爱你，塞北的雪，飘飘洒洒漫天遍野), 信区: ACZone
标  题: 蓝精灵原创作者
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年06月12日18:46:44 星期二), 站内信件

The following story was written in a English magazine (Newsline), just after
the death of PEYO on December 24th, 1992.
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Born in Brussels, 1928, of an English father and a Belgian mother, Pierre Cu
lliford, alias PEYO, studied at the city's Fine Arts Academy. He found succe
ss as one of a generation of stripcartoon artists who followed in Herg?s foo
tsteps.
Peyo, a sobriquet acquired because an English cousin could not pronounce his
nickname, Pierrot, began his career in 1947 with a medieval page-boy charac
ter called Johan. The boy's adventures were serialized in the Belgian dailie
s, La Dernier?Heure, in 1947, and in the youth columns of Le Soir, in 1951 a
nd in 1952. Johan was soon joined by a companion, Pirlouit, and the Smurfs w
ere born as extras in one of their stories.
The blue dwarfs were discovered living in a mushroom-house village deep in t
he forest. Their special way of talking, replacing key words by SMURF, becam
e the deligth of Belgian children who, to their parents' consternation, woul
d imitate it.
By 1959, the Smurfs became Peyo's central characters. They are known in Dutc
h as Smurfen, as Schlumpf in Germany, Schtroumpf in France, Pitufos in Spain
, Smols in Danish, Puffi in Italy, Smurfies in Afrikaans, Strumps in Serbo-C
roat, Cumafu in Japanese, Lang shin ling in Chinese and Dardassim in Hebrew.
Peyo's Smurfs have appeared in a total of 25 languages.
The Smurfs became so popular that after appearing in nine 13 mm films, in 19
75 they starred in the feature-length La Flute ?Six Schtroumpfs. Peyo then i
ntroduced the wise old Papa Smurf and the coquettish Smurfette, who remained
long the only woman in the dwarfs' adventures.
In 1991, a Smurf theme park opened near Metz, France. The venture was not a
succes, closed, and was then reopened again, under the new management of Wal
ibi. But Smurfs still pop up all over the place. Cuddly toys, Saturday morni
ng cartoons on American television, memorabilia of all sorts. Even the Manne
ken Pis has a Smurf outfit. Fellow cartoonist Morris paid tribute to Peyo's
success: "I think he owes his popularity to his enormous talent as story-tel
ler and to the extreme clarity of his drawings."
Peyo's 16th and last album Le Schtroumpf Financier was published just a mont
h ago by Editions Lombard, and is already selling like hotcakes. Not bad for
someone who was told by his schoolteacher that he had no future as an artis
t.

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   失恋的感觉是什么？
   三分的苦涩，三分的哀伤，三分的无奈，还有一分的甜蜜。�

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