Pepe Gotera y Otilio
| Pepe Gotera y Otilio | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
Editorial Bruguera | |
| First appearance | Tío Vivo (2 April 1966) |
| Created by | Francisco Ibáñez Talavera |
Pepe Gotera y Otilio, or more complete Pepe Gotera y Otilio, chapuzas a domicilio (roughly: Pepe Leak and Otilio, botched jobs home delivered) are
Plot
The main characters are Pepe Gotera and Otilio, who form a peculiar company of reparations and other manual jobs.
- Pepe Gotera is the boss, the foreman, meaning that he only gives orders and works as little as possible. He always wears a red bowler hat and a Groucho Marx-style mustache.
- Otilio is who does the hard work, although he is more concerned about lunch time than the reparations he has to do. He is fat and wears a blue cap and cow, etc.) and later when working he uses very rustic and unsafe methods for carrying out the work.
Actually none of them work, and they cause trouble and all kinds of disasters in the places they visit, such as landslides, flooding, explosions and many more variants.
As with
Publication
The first strip of the workers appeared on 2 April 1966 in the Tío Vivo magazine.[1] and soon became one of the most popular characters of the author.
In 1985 they had their own short-lived namesake magazine (8 issues) which published a long "apocryphal" (not by Ibáñez) story titled El castillo de los Pelhamcudy, by Juan Martínez Osete.[2]
Influence
Several television critics have commented that the TV series
References
- Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 28/09/1981, page 53. (in Spanish)
- ISBN 978-84-92506-29-3, page 189 (in Spanish)
- ^ Pastrana, David (17 June 2010). "Seis series españolas que saltaron del cómic a la tele". vayatele.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 June 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
External links
- Pepe Gotera y Otilio in mortadeloyfilemon.com (in Spanish)