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Rompetechos
Created by Francisco Ibáñez
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Publisher Editorial Bruguera
Original language Spanish
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Publication date 1964

Rompetechos is a Spanish comic character created by cartoonist Francisco Ibáñez in 1964, protagonist of the series of the same name. Rompetechos is a short and myopic man whose poor vision generates comical situations. Ibánez stated repeatedly that, among his creations, this was his favorite character [1] and due to this he appeared frequently in other series by the author, notably Mortadelo y Filemón (Mort and Phil).

Characteristics

Rompetechos is stubborn, short, short-sighted and clueless, his name (rompetechos means “ceiling breaker”) being an irony for his short height. [2] The strips are 1 to 4 pages long and tell the life of this character and the funny situations that occur caused by his lack of vision.

The usual way of a cartoon of Rompetechos is usually as follows: The character has the need to do or buy something, so it starts to go back and forth causing many disasters because of his lack of vision that makes him confuse everything (e.g., confusing a young hairy man with a daisy and proceeding to "pluck" him or a man disguised as a Viking with a deer and trying to hunt him, etc.). If he tries to buy something he will invariably misread all the posters then will have a surreal dialogue with the store clerk. Rompetechos then mistreats the people he believes are laughing at him and then the situation escalates to physical violence or with Rompetechos locked in a jail or an asylum.

Creation

There are two conflicting stories about the creation of Rompetechos:

Publication

The character first appeared in Tío Vivo magazine in 1964 [3] In 1969 was the visible figure of Din Dan magazine as well as having two magazines named after him in the 1970s. He is the only character of the author, apart from Mortadelo y Filemón, with new comic strips in the 21st century.

Adaptations

In the 2003 film La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón , based on another characters of the author, Mortadelo y Filemón (Mort and Phil), Rompetechos is played by Emilio Gavira and is presented as a nostalgic of the Francoist regime, something not appearing in the comics. About this thing, director of the film, Javier Fesser, said: "a short guy with a mustache who is always angry has to be fascist". [4] In the sequel, Mortadelo y Filemón. Misión: salvar la Tierra , this Francoist connotations were suppressed.

Criticism

The character has been criticized by people who believe that mocks the myopic persons, but Ibáñez says that he has poor vision himself and does not pretend to do any harm. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ El gran libro de Mortadelo y Filemón 50º Aniversario, page 111
  2. 1 2 Armando Matías Guiu in ¿Cómo nace un personaje? for Comic Story-3, 3rd number of Bruguelandia , Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 28/09/1981, p. 53.
  3. ↑ delcomic.es (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Encuentros digitales. Ha estado con nosotros... Javier Fesser". elmundo.es (in Spanish). Mundinteractivos, S.A. 12 February 2003. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Entrevista a Francisco Ibáñez: "Quiero que me sobrevivan Mortadelo y Filemón"". El Semanal de El Periódico (in Spanish). 26 April 1998. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2019– via Mortadeloyfilemon.com.

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