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Pepo (cartoonist)

René Ríos Boettiger (Concepción, 15 December 1911 - 14 July 2000), also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of thefamous character Condorito.
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. In 1932 hemoved toSantiago to work as a cartoonist at the satirical magazine Topaze. Adopting the pseudonym "Pepo" (from pepón, "little barrel", his childhood nickname), he created the comic stripDon Gabito forthe magazine, a strip featuring a caricatured Chilean president Gabriel González Videla. He also caricatured president Pedro Aguirre Cerda as Don Pedrito.
In 1943 he created Condorito, his mostfamous 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, PobreDiablo, Can Can, Pichanga, El Saquero, El Peneca, and branched out into other forms of illustration as well. Rios died of cancer in 2000 at the age of 88.
A great lover of the seaside, Rios often drewwhile 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 anda 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.

René Rios Boettiger,who used the pseudonym of Pepo, briefly studied medicins, but eventually switched to fine arts. In 1932, he went to work in humorous illustration. For over twenty years, he was one of the maincollaborators of the satirical magazine Topaze. He created the strip 'Condorito' for the magazine Okey in 1949. The strip still enjoys a great popularity today throughout Latin America. After having worked...