Pepe Gotera y Otilio
Pepe Gotera y Otilio, or more complete Pepe Gotera y Otilio, chapuzas a domicilio are Spanish comic characters of the series of the same name created by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera in 1966 focusing on the comic adventures of two bumbling and disastrous workmen.
Plot
The main characters are Pepe Gotera and Otilio, who form a peculiar company of reparations and other manual jobs.- Pepe Gotera is the boss, the foreman, meaning that he only gives orders and works as little as possible. He always wears a red bowler hat and a Groucho Marx-style mustache.
- Otilio is who does the hard work, although he is more concerned about lunch time than the reparations he has to do. He is fat and wears a blue cap and overall. At the beginning of every comic he appears eating completely absurd and excessive dishes and later when working he uses very rustic and unsafe methods for carrying out the work.
As with Mort and Phil, is always Pepe Gotera, the boss, who ends up paying the blunders of his partner, and because of their ineptitude most of the comics finish with a customer angered by the result of their efforts.
Publication
The first strip of the workers appeared on 2 April 1966 in the Tío Vivo magazine. and soon became one of the most popular characters of the author.In 1985 they had their own short-lived namesake magazine which published a long "apocryphal" story titled El castillo de los Pelhamcudy, by Juan Martínez Osete.