Early Smurf drawings to be smurfed at the smurfing house

Some of Belgian artist Peyo's early drawings are headed to the auction house, where they are expected to fetch $160,000 or more. [Reuters]

• [Henrix Gudmundsson]

  Oh, I really loved those Johan et Pirlouit comics when I was a kid. And the early smurfs appearing – that’s from the first comic they’re in, I think.

• [OtherMichael]

  I think you mean “schtroumpf drawings to be schtroumpfed at the schtroumpfing house”

• [ifriit]

  I think something is wrong with me, because every time I see the word “smurf” some part of my brain immediately interprets it as an obscenity filter and tries to think of dirty words to drop in its place.

• [Jean-Francois Poulin]

  Ah oui les shtroumphs and this illustration comes from the first album. La flûte de Pirlouit. :)

• [Bernard Dub]

  I believe it was “La Flute à six Schtroumpfs” (“The Eight-Smurf Flute”), a story about some enchanted flute that make people, what… fall over? Or dance? I don’t remeber exactly. Indeed taken from the series “Johan & Pirlouit” (Johan and Peewit), from which “les Schtroumpfs” was actually a spinoff! The little guy playing is Pirlouit, and Johan is the one smurfing around. My kids love these stories as much as I did at their age. Classic stuff.

  Speaking of Belgian comics tunred into Hollywood blockbusters, anyone seen the new Tintin movie by Spielberg?

  Of course there are plenty more Belgian comics to unearth. Maybe Spirou and Fantasio would be a proper reference in the BoingBoing world, with all their inventions and scientific stuff?

• [Bernard Dub]

  And the story was also turned into a movie :
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5qE4vY6eyA

• [Stefan Jones]

  The new Tintin movie hasn’t been released yet.

  The trailers suggest it was made deep, deep in Uncanny Valley.