Joe Barbera brought the Smurfs to the screen in their animated form, but they were

the brainchild of a Belgian cartoonist in the '50s. Wikipedia says that "The Belgian

cartoonist Peyo introduced the Smurfs to the world in a series of comic strips, making

their first appearance in the Belgian magazine Spirou on October 23, 1958."

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