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Rene Rios Boettiger
Rene Rios Boettiger , also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of the famous character Condorito.
Although he studied medicine at the Universidad de Concepcion, Rios abandoned his studies in the early 1930s to devote all his time to creating his cartoons. In 1932 he moved to Santiago to work as a cartoonist at the satirical magazine Topaze. Adopting the pseudonym "Pepo" , he created the comic strip Don Gabito for the magazine, a strip featuring a caricatured Chilean president Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. He also caricatured president Pedro Aguirre Cerda as Don Pedrito.
In 1943 he created Condorito, ...
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