THE SMURFS are coming!

Hi There!

Editorial Associate Mike Petranek here because I am extremely excited about THE SMURFS graphic novels, in stores four weeks from tomorrow on August 31st! It’s been a long wait but we are very excited for Papercutz fans to see these graphic novels. The work by Peyo and Yvan Delporte is truly wonderful. Here’s a sneak-peak you won’t see anywhere else of one of the stories in graphic novel #1  “The Purple Smurfs,” called “The Flying Smurf”:

I can certainly identify with the Flying Smurf. Who wouldn’t want to fly? It sure would make getting to work a whole lot easier!

The advance copies of THE PURPLE SMURFS and THE SMURFS AND THE MAGIC FLUTE have begun generating some buzz. THE PURPLE SMURFS was recently named one of the five best graphic novels for kids and adults by tonic.com… And that’s out of all the graphic novels released – ever! We were thrilled to see this.

If you’d like some more history on THE SMURFS, I recommend visiting the Occasional Superheroine blog and of course, our good friend Matt Murray’s smurfology blog. You can also find information on THE PURPLE SMURFS in the August 15th issue of Kirkus reviews! I’ll be sure to post it here once it’s online. That’s it for now. I hope you are having a great Monday, and thanks for stopping by!

-Michael