| Pepo | |
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 Self-caricature by Pepo | |
| Born | René Rodolfo Ríos Boettiger 15 December 1911 Concepción, Chile |
| Died | 14 July 2000 (aged 88) Santiago, Chile |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist |
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| Children | 2 |
René Ríos Boettiger (Concepción, 15 December 1911 — 14 July 2000), also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of the famous character Condorito. [1] He has been credited as the most prominent Chilean graphic humorist of the 20th century. [2] [3] [4]
He was the son of the marriage of Amanda Boettiger Krause and the doctor René Ríos Guzmán. [5] He published his first cartoon at the age of 7 in the newspaper El Sur of Concepción. [5] Encouraged by his father, he continued with his drawings until he held his first exhibition, at the age of 10, at the Palet confectionery in his city. [6] Although he studied medicine at the Universidad de Concepción, Rios abandoned his studies in the early 1930s to devote all his time to creating his cartoons. [5] [6] In 1932 he moved to Santiago to work as a cartoonist at the satirical magazine Topaze. [6] Adopting the pseudonym "Pepo" (from pepón, "little barrel", his childhood nickname), he created the comic strip Don Gabito for the magazine, a strip featuring a caricatured Chilean president Gabriel González Videla. [6] He also caricatured president Pedro Aguirre Cerda as Don Pedrito. [6]
In 1949 [7] [8] he created Condorito, his most famous character, taking the idea from the condor of the Chilean coat of arms.
Over the next sixty years Rios contributed cartoons to a great number of publications, including El Pingüino, Ganso, Pobre Diablo, Can Can, Pichanga, El Saquero, El Peneca, and branched out into other forms of illustration as well. [6] [9] Rios died of cancer in 2000 at the age of 88. [10] [11]
A great lover of the seaside, Rios often drew while looking at the sea at El Quisco on the Chilean Central Coast. A statue of Condorito now stands at the location. In 2000, an effort led by Omar Pérez Santiago (a scholar of Chilean cartooning and a co-founder of the academic Chilean Center for Comics) resulted in a sculpture of Condorito memorializing Rios being installed in the Chilean House of Culture in San Miguel.
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