Generally these parodies have several pages dedicated to a story.Īfter the military coup of 1973, some Chilean cartoonists were censored by the military regime, yet unlike other publications (such as the Argentinian Mafalda), which combined criticism of society with humor, " Condorito", which lacked the former, continued to be published. Condorito and his friends appear in a daily comic strip.Ĭondorito has done many parodies of well-known characters. Despite his Chilean origin, Condorito is very popular throughout Latin America, where the character is considered part of the general popular culture, and has a growing readership in the United States as well. At the first age of the comic, the jokes usually have a very basic context and themes, like African people always represented as primitive cannibals, women as bad drivers or as a jealous wife waiting for her husband to come back from a party, etc.Ĭondorito was created by the Chilean cartoonist René Ríos, known as "Pepo". " Condorito" through the 1960s and 1970s held to a conservative perspective on Chile and its society, poking fun at both the new left-wing poets and the hippies. Another catchphrase, usual for Condorito, but used with almost all the characters, is "Reflauta", to show surprise or other emotions. From time to time, this is replaced by the victim of the joke saying "¡Exijo una explicación!" ("I demand an explanation!"), usually as a twist or downbeat ending. This classic comic strip "flop take" is accompanied by a free-fall onomatopoeic sound (usually "¡Plop!"). One peculiar characteristic of " Condorito" is that the character that goes through the embarrassing moment and/or serves as the butt of the joke in a given strip almost always falls backwards to the floor (legs visible or out of frame) in the final panel, although new comic strips have now put the victim of the joke looking at the reader instead.
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