Les Schtroumpfs noirs
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Les Schtroumpfs Noirs (lit. The Black Smurfs) is the first comic issue of the original french-language Smurfs comic series.
[edit] Plot
In a little mushroom village, live the Smurfs, diminutive blue-skinned humanoid creatures. One day, one of them gets stung by a black fly that turns his skin jay black, renders his mind crazy and makes him speak only in "gnap!" words. He bounces around and bites other Smurfs on their tail, transmitting his condition, turning them into Dark Smurfs too. Soon, the village is almost all invaded by Dark Smurfs, and Papa Smurf, the leader, tries to find a cure.
[edit] Note
- Apparently due to the title and the nature of the black-skinned Smurfs, this comic issue didn't manage to be translated for the English-speaking market which saw it as giving a racist message. When it came out, some readers believed that the author was trying to make an analogy of immigration from Africa to Europe.[citation needed]
- In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Dark Smurfs have been made purple-skinned in order to soften any racist connotation.
- This is the only Smurfs comic book where a Smurf is seen without a hat. Papa Smurf has his blown away by an explosion, revealing a bald head.
