Bompastore Smurf (Empath stories)

Bompastore is a Smurf character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He is the father of Biscotti and Gelato Smurf, who along with Baker Smurf is the village chef who cooks food for his fellow Smurfs. He is a descendant of the Puffo clan and speaks with a very heavy Italian accent.

About 50 years later, he along with his wife succumbed to the same unknown disease that claimed the lives of all their fellow Smurfs except for Papa Smurf. Biscotti and Gelato then left in the care of Papa Smurf along with 96 other young Smurfs his age.

Years later, during the events in the story "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf", Bompastore supposedly came back from the dead to meet his grown-up sons. However, Smurfette, Polaris Psyche, and the Smurflings discover and reveal the truth that the "resurrected" Bompastore was just an illusion created by the Auld Lang Syne Spell that the evil witch, Chlorhydris, had cast upon the Smurfs.

The character is named after Vic George's friend Gaetano Bompastore.