The Ephemerist » Smurfs

The kinky side of smurfs

sparehed — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:36:01 +0000

“Humiliation in Smurfish is 5 dollar extra” – From Kim Duchateau’s Facebook gallery.

(cartoon © Kim Duchateau)

Clothes make the Comic Character

sparehed — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:37:00 +0000

As proven by this campaign by Euro RSCG in Puerto Rico, clothes do make the man, also in comics. Artwork by Israel García and Pablo Silva.

(via Ads Of The Woirld, obviously)

The Color Of Comics

sparehed — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:11:02 +0000

Comex Paints claims they can match any color. Even iconic ones (and even more after the click).

(via Ads Of The World)

Why Marsupilami Rules

sparehed — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:26:15 +0000

I adore comics that refer to other comics, and preferably in a very disrespectful-but-still-loving way. This page on why the Marsupilami rules the Franco-Belgian comic waves, was published in Spirou 3684, and was created by Tébo (short for Frédéric Thébault), author of Captain Biceps collaborator on In Caca Veritas.

(via Blake, Jacobs & Mortimer)

Smurfs wars !

sparehed — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:06:12 +0000

Marcello Braga of Brasil has conceived a scenario of what happens to the Smurfs after they finally beat and kill Gargamel and Azrael, and Papa Smurf finally has died of old age. It’s hard-hitting and pocket-sized !

I don’t know whether the Peyo people will buy into the story, but it has a nice Elseworlds ring to it.

Smurf Panini’s !

sparehed — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:41:18 +0000

Woohoo ! Best of both worlds…

World’s Worst Comic Book Museum

Smurfs over Liege

sparehed — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:45:50 +0000

On their year-long Anniversary Tour of Europe, the Smurfs took over Liège today. And even though that’s not far from where I live, the weather was too bad to make the trip, and besides, I had work to do.

We’d bought our Smurfs from Unicef anyhow, as that is the main purpose of this campaign : raising awareness (and money) for that cause. Which brings me to something that has been on my mind since this campaign started. All those lowlives who are selling these charity smurfs on Ebay for $ 50 or more, you should be ashamed of yourselves for more than one reason :

Chances are you grabbed handfuls of Smurfs from the street in whatever city you live in, leaving nothing for the children who were meant to find them,
You’re trying to make money from something that you didn’t pay zip for yourself
The amount of money you ask is totally outrageous, as Unicef sells the same figures for a mere € 10
You’re actually stealing from the charity that these figures were made for.

So there.

Support the smurfs !

sparehed — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:24 +0000

The Smurfs are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a tour across Europe. So far, they’ve turned up in Angoulème, Ghent and Scheveningen, and in each of these cities, thousands of lifesize white Smurfs turn up. If you find one, you can take him home, paint him and take part in a competition. But at the same time, these little gnomes also create awareness about Unicef, the Smurfs’ and Studio Peyo’s charity of choice (remember the quite disturbing ad they did together last year).

Check out the mirth and surprise at each of these locations, and especially admire the Astérix smurf that Albert Uderzo painted in Angoulème.

And if you’re not in Europe, or just to lazy to go smurf hunting, why not buy your own ? They’re for sale at the Unicef Shop, they’re like three apples high (which is about 7 inches) and they’re only 10 Euro’s (which is about 15 USD, I gather). So, there’s no reason not to. Get one, paint one, fly.

John And John Get All Topical, Also

sparehed — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:38:41 +0000

Get more John And John here. Mind you : some of their strips are rather NSFW…

Smurfs galore

sparehed — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:40:12 +0000

Here’s two recent examples of the Smurf craze that’s sweeping across Europe (or, two examples of attempts to artificially create one). Above is a key chain that was handed out to visitors of the Schleich booth at the 2008 Nürnberg Spielwarenmesse. It’s one of a special series of figurines produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the little blue dwarves.

In the mean time, Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn tries to cash in as well, by awarding customers with a little plastic Smurf for every € 15 purchase. These figurines are smaller than the regular Schleich ones, but apart from that, they are quite good, actually.