Comments on: Smurfs are 50 — let's party!

By: Liz Glass

Liz Glass — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:51:11 +0000

My friends and I used to collect smurfs. My allowance was $2 and they were $1.50. They were kind of like the Beanie Babies of the 70’s.

By: groonk

groonk — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:47:11 +0000

smurfs are 50!?

i’m smurfing smurf as smurf.

By: tom fowler

tom fowler — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:30 +0000

they were actually originally ‘Les Schtroumpfs’ in french. i think it’s just that even nonsense words don’t always translate terribly well…

By: Tag

Tag — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:16:04 +0000

Let’s party ’til we’re blue in the face!

[waits for thunderous, uproarious laughter]

“That’s what’s so ridiculous about being a Smurf, because what’s the point of life if you’ve got no dick?”
“Jesus, Donnie, why d’ya gotta get so smart on us?”

By: michael

michael — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:11:56 +0000

I can never understand these things. Why aren’t they known as ‘Smurfs’ all over the world? It’s not like that is a real word in any language.

By: Cary Coatney

Cary Coatney — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:41:25 +0000

Oh man, don’t tell that to Seth Green pulphope. How many Smurf satires have there been on Robot Chicken so far?

Coat

By: pulphope

pulphope — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:01:51 +0000

“Are we there yet, Papa Smurf?”

“Not yet, my little Smurfs…”

I remember in the ’80s either Cracked or Crazy magazine doing a hilarious send-up of the Smurfs– Gargamel eating them, boiling them, etc. In one pannel, a Smurf gets de-hatted, exposing a big ugly lump of a head under the hat– the hat doesn’t flop over, there’s actually a head in there giving it that shape– funny stuff!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:34:58 +0000

In honor of the 50th anniversary, here is an amazing illustration of Gargamel by Calvin Wong— for part of a feature in the first issue of our zine, Electric Ant!

http://flickr.com/photos/calwong/2041426361/

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:06:03 +0000

in celebration, i’m gonna smurf my girl after we smurf up some heroin and get smurfed up!

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:41:12 +0000

“Mommy, where did the other girl smurfs come from?”
surprisingly, there was not a pokemon-like cultural invasion of European kids’ comics. The Smurf albums did not sell well; Asterix, Tintin, and Marsupulami had a little success; even the polished mature comics fail to find a mass audience even in comics shops.
However, that cult status makes it cooler, a secret guilty pleasure like Mozart kugeln and Tex Avery cartoons!