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| Publisher: | Editorial Bruguera |
| Debut: | Tío Vivo (2 April 1966) |
| Creators: | Francisco Ibáñez Talavera |
Pepe Gotera y Otilio, or more complete Pepe Gotera y Otilio, chapuzas a domicilio (roughly: Pepe Leak and Otilio, botched jobs home delivered) 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.
The main characters are Pepe Gotera and Otilio, who form a peculiar company of reparations and other manual jobs.
Actually none of them work, and they cause trouble and all kinds of disasters in the places they visit, such as landslides, flooding, explosions and many more variants.
As with Mort and Phil (the most famous series of the author), 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.
The first strip of the workers appeared on 2 April 1966 in the Tío Vivo magazine.[1] and soon became one of the most popular characters of the author.
In 1985 they had their own short-lived namesake magazine (8 issues) which published a long "apocryphal" (not by Ibáñez) story titled El castillo de los Pelhamcudy, by Juan Martínez Osete.[2]
Several television critics have commented that the TV series Manos a la obra, broadcast in Antena 3 from 1998 to 2001 is inspired by this comic.[3]