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'''Pascal Garray''' (12 December 1965 – 17 January 2017) was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[comics artist]] and [[cartoonist]] best known for his work on [[Peyo]]'s ''[[The Smurfs]]'' and ''[[Benoît Brisefer]]'' (known in [[Dutch language|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 comic art at the [[Institut Saint-Luc]] in [[Liège]].<ref name=rtc/> Following his studies, he joined the staff of Studio Peyo as a comic 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/>