High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs) is a Belgian comic and television franchise centered on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958. There are more than one hundred Smurfs, whose names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics, e.g. `Jokey Smurf`, who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow smurfs, `Clumsy Smurf`, who has a habit of creating havoc unintentionally, and `Smurfette` -- the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series.