Pascal Garray

{{Expand French|topic=bio|Pascal Garray|date=February 2017}} {{Short description|Belgian comics cartoonist and scriptwriter}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = Pascal Garray.png | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Pascal Garray | birth_date = {{birth date|1965|12|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Rocourt, Belgium | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2017|01|17|1965|12|12|df=yes}}}} | death_place = Liège, Belgium | write = y | art = y | spouse = | children = | alias = | signature = | signature_alt = | notable works = ''The Smurfs'', ''Benoît Brisefer'' | awards = |cartoonist=y}} '''Pascal Garray''' (12 December 1965 – 17 January 2017) was a Belgian comics artist and cartoonist best known for his work on Peyo's ''The Smurfs'' and ''Benoît Brisefer'' (known in Dutch as ''Steven Sterk'').<ref name=demorgen>{{cite news|title=Smurfen-tekenaar Pascal Garray (51) overleden |url=http://www.demorgen.be/tvmedia/smurfen-tekenaar-pascal-garray-51-overleden-b0a2e49a/ |work=De Morgen |date=2017-01-17 |access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref><ref name=nos>{{cite news|title=Smurfen-tekenaar Pascal Garray overleden |url=http://nos.nl/artikel/2153482-smurfen-tekenaar-pascal-garray-overleden.html |work=Nederlandse Omroep Stichting |date=2017-01-17 |access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref><ref name=rtc>{{cite news|title=Pascal Garray, dessinateur des Schtroumpfs, s'est éteint |url=http://www.rtc.be/article/culture/pascal-garray-dessinateur-des-schtroumpfs-s-est-eteint_1493759_325.html |work=RTC-Télé Liège |date=2017-01-17 |access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref><ref name=rtbe>{{cite news|first=Jacques|last=Schraûwen |title=Pascal Garray, le dessinateur des Schtroumpfs, est décédé |url=https://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/detail_pascal-garray-le-dessinateur-des-schtroumpfs-est-decede?id=9505081 |work=RTBF |date=2017-01-17 |access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref> ==Biography== Pascal Garray studied art at the Institut Saint-Luc in Liège.<ref name=rtc/> Following his studies, he joined the staff of Studio Peyo as a comics artist in 1990.<ref name=rtc/> During his first two years at the studio, Garray was taught to draw characters from ''The Smurfs'' and ''Benoît Brisefer'' by Peyo himself.<ref name=rtc/>

Garray helped continue both ''The Smurfs'' and ''Benoît Brisefer'' comics following Peyo's death in 1992.<ref name=demorgen/> He and Peyo's son, Thierry Culliford, resumed work on ''Benoît Brisefer'' after the artist's death, with Garray, who was 28 years old at the time of its relaunch, heading the project as its principal artist.<ref name=rtc/> Despite his work in ''Benoît Brisefer'', Garray became best known for his contributions to ''The Smurfs'' as one of the comic series' most important artists.<ref name=demorgen/> Since 1990, Garray contributed as an artist and writer on seventeen comic books for ''The Smurfs'' and seven editions of ''Benoît Brisefer''.<ref name=demorgen/><ref name=nos/>

Pascal Garray died in Liège, Belgium, on 17 January 2017, at the age of 51.<ref name=demorgen/><ref name=nos/><ref name=rtc/> Prior to his death, Garray had completed work on his last comic for ''The Smurfs'', "The Smurfs and the Purple Bean" (French: ''Les Schtroumpfs et les haricots Mauves'', Dutch: ''De Smurfen en de paarse bonen''), which was released in September 2017.<ref name=demorgen/><ref name=nos/><ref name=rtc/><ref name=rtbe/>

== See also == • Marcinelle school

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