The Smurfs Smurfs are generally named after their personality disposition, much like Disney's Seven Dwarfs; for example, Brainy, Greedy, Vanity, Lazy, Clumsy, Hefty, Jokey, Dreamy, Grouchy, or their profession, for example, Poet, Actor, Handy, Harmony, Farmer, Clockwork, Painter, Tailor, Miner, Architect, Reporter, Timber, Barber and Doctor Smurf. The first female Smurf, Smurfette, was created by Gargamel to lure the other Smurfs. Papa Smurf then changed her into what we see today. The non-Smurf characters who would appear later would include their enemies the wizard Gargamel, his cat Azrael, an ugly witch, Hogatha and Gargamel's godfather Balthazar; and their friends the page Johan
The Purple Smurfs The Purple Smurfs The Purple Smurfs (original French title: Les Schtroumpfs noirs, "The Black Smurfs") is the first album of the original French-language "Smurfs" comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo. It was first published as an album in 1963, but the stories it contained had already been published in "Spirou" magazine. The main story "Les Schtroumpfs noirs" was first published in number 1107 (July 2, 1959). Apart from the titular one, it contains two other stories: "The Flying Smurf" ("Le Schtroumpf Volant") and "The Smurfnapper" ("Le Voleur de Schtroumpfs"). In a little mushroom village live the Smurfs, diminutive blue-skinned