By 2012, Condorito was in 105 Spanish-language newspapers distributed in 19 countries, including Canada, United States, Italy, and Japan.
In order for readers in other Spanish-speaking countries to understand the jokes, many of them had to be modified: excessively marked Chileanisms were removed and certain references to Chile were stopped.
[3] According to Alberto Montt, manager of the World Editors company: «Condorito's success is based on the fact that it shares the Hispanic idiosyncrasy that has a different humor than the Anglo.
He embodies the Latin American dream of living to have fun».In Condorito, stereotypes for characters and situations are regularly used, although in general the humor is white, they reflect the mentality and habitual humor of past decades: jokes about the crazy or insane, stupid, drunk, infidelity, machismo, ethnic, medical and sick, usurers, peasants recently arrived in the city, etc.
Thus we have: Vanidosa by Vanidades, Cosmopolita by Cosmopolitan, Bad Housekeeping by Good Housekeeping, Unpopular Mechanics by Popular Mechanics, FeoMundo by GeoMundo, Ideas para robar by Ideas para su hogar, Yo by Tú, Spicnik by Sputnik, Sinlecciones by Selecciones, Conozca Menos by Conozca Más, Vago por Vogue, Nada Interesante by Muy Interesante, El Humorista by El Economista, Casos by Cosas, among other.
In addition, colloquial language is used to reinforce the verbal abuse of which the characters are victims ("gross huaso", "roto marginal", "peeled", etc.).
Among the first were Renato Andrade Alarcón "Nato" (1921-2006), Jorge Carvallo Muñoz "Jorcar" (1932-2017),[5][6] Ricardo González Paredes "Ric" (1936-2011)[7] and Eduardo de la Barra (cartoonist) (1942-2013), Hernán Vidal "Hervi" (b.
1958), Daniel Fernández, Marta García, Luis Peñaloza, Nelson Pérez (lyricist), Sergio Nawrath, Samuel "Sam" Gana Godoy (1932-2016),[13] Dino Gnecco Zavallia (1935-2014),[14] Edmundo Pezoa Cartagena (b.
1960)[20] Víctor Figueroa Barra, Mario Igor Vargas (1929-1995),[21] Avelino García Llorente (n. 1932), Nelson Soto (n. 1937),[22] Luis Caracuel Saavedra (b.
1959),[23] Elizabeth Villalón, Lorenzo Mejías "Loren", Emiliano Zúñiga (lyricist), Vicente "Vicho" Plaza Santibáñez (b.
1959),[26] Ivy Pardow Olivares,[15] Álvaro Flores Sepúlveda,[27] Mario Meneses Labrin,[28] and Rodrigo Boettcher Retamal.
[29][30][31] In 1942, the Walt Disney Company created the animated film Saludos Amigos depicting Donald Duck and a cast of anthropomorphic characters representing various nations of the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
[citation needed] The first publication of a Condorito comic strip was in the first issue of Okey magazine, owned by Zig-Zag,[3] on August 6, 1949.
[33] During the Okey magazine editions, Condorito was given a real context in a fictitious town, Pelotillehue, along with family members and situations closer to people.
In 1976 the international rights to Condorito were acquired by Editors Press Service, a subsidiary of the Evening Post Publishing Company.
[3] Condorito through the 1960s and 1970s held to a conservative perspective on Chile and its society, poking fun at both the new left-wing poets and the hippies.
At the first age of the comic, the jokes usually have a very basic context and themes, like African people always represented as primitive cannibals, women as bad drivers or as a jealous wife waiting for her husband to come back from a party, etc.