Nine Culliford, born Janine Devroye, died yesterday at the age of 86.
She was a close comics collaborator with her late husband, Pierre Culliford better known as Peyo, creator of the Smurfs.
But as her husband's colourist, she was also the person who decided the Smurfs should be blue.
And she continued to work on the Smurfs comics after her[...]