Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Congordito

I read Condorito comics to practice my Spanish and have some laughs. He's like a Chilean version of Donald Duck, except he also smokes, drinks, chases women; and of course, he only speaks Chilean Spanish. I shopped the cover of his 1st edition (1955) as a joke to share with friends (way) down south. I put a lot of hours into this thing, so I thought I might as well share it with some more northerly Americans too.



Some of the gags might need a little explanation . . . Gordito means “rather fat” or “little fat guy” . . . LAN is the Chilean national airlines . . . The tree on the tee is an araucaria. It's on a lot of Chilean tourist goods . . . and . . . My camera was snatched on my last visit!

Here's the original cover...