Which cartoon characters were created 50 years ago by the Belgian Peyo?
Peyo "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". Peyo was born in 1928 in the Belgian municipality Schaerbeek, as the son of an English father and a Belgian mother. On Christmas Eve 1992, Peyo died of a heart attack in Brussels at age 64. He
Peyo the newspaper "La Dernière Heure" (The Latest Hour), but also accepted many promotional drawing jobs for income. From 1949 to 1952, he drew "Poussy", a stop comic about a cat, for "Le Soir". For the same newspaper, he also created "Johan". In 1952, Franquin introduced Peyo to "Spirou", a children's Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by Dupuis. Peyo wrote and drew a number of characters and storylines, including "Pierrot", and "Benoît Brisefer" (translated into English as "Steven Strong"). But his favourite was "Johan et Pirlouit" (translated into English as "Johan and Peewit"), which was a continuation of the series "Johan" he