Peyo

Birthday: June 25th, 1928 Date of Death: December 24th, 1992 Place of Birth: Brussels, Belgium

Pierre "Peyo" Culliford (25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992) was a Belgian cartoonist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo. His best-known works are the comic strips The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in which the Smurfs first appeared.