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Thanks! It looks very interesting. It IS funny animal! And satire of human nature! Right up my alley! It seems that the main character is lazy, but gets by on his wits (a bit like José Carioca). But, Condorito also has family problems, and problems with many more regular characters (at least a lot more than the US version of Carioca). The artwork looks very nice, too. The artist's name is René Ríos. I wonder if he's related to other Chileno cartoonist, Victor Arriagada Ríos?

here is mafalda
http://www.shemsu.com/mafalda/used/mafalda114.jpg

and condorito
http://www.sofoca.cl/condorito/Scan0007.jpg

Quote from user: Robb_KI really like the look of Condorito. the little I've seen of it seems funny, too. But maybe it's more joke and gag-related, and not so story-oriented as Barks?

I like the look of Mafalda, too. Is she like a cross between "Peanuts" and "Little Lulu"?
No, she is more like a cross between peanuts and a political cartoon.

The comic was very popular in sweden in the 1970'ies, and other works by Quino (the author and artist of Mafalda) are currently being published even today.

I rarely read comics anymore that aren't Disney Duck-related, but I was really into French-language comics for a while (though I had a Beetle Bailey obsession in the late Seventies that lasted some years).
I still have several volumes of Tintin, Asterix (French and English with both of them), Sammy, Les Tuniques Bleues as well as a few manga and doujinshis...not to mention a scattered collection of Archies. :D

Quote from user: Roger NorthI used to read Archie Comics and any other comic book based on a popular TV Show.
Cool. :) Don't you miss comics the way they used to be? Seems like (except for the Archies), everything's either manga or graphic novels. There's certainly nothing wrong with those (I like them in fact), but you wonder what happened to regular comic books.

I don't know Lady Quackly. I guess they don't sell that well these days.

Quote from user: Roger NorthI don't know Lady Quackly. I guess they don't sell that well these days.
The Direct Sales Market killed them in the US, making comics inaccessible to new readers. They simply don't know where to find them. At one brief period of time the DSM was a boon to the industry, but it died with the end of the 90s speculator rush.
I still read plenty of non-Disney comics, but they are mostly collections of reprints of 60s, 70s, and 80s Marvel and DC comics. Almost no new comics from those companies interest me anymore. I'd love to read all the international Scrooge/Donald stories but I'm limited to English unfortunately, so I have to wait for Gemstone to reprint those they get to.