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¡Gordo Y Más!

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Celebrating the work of critically acclaimed cartoonist Gus Arriola, and his iconic comic strip Gordo! Sharing photos from my personal collection of newspaper strips, original art and more! Gordo Y Más on Blogspot:

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¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 16

Gordo by Gus Arriola, June 1 1981:

"I'm not vain" Gordo tells Tehuana Mama as he peers in the mirror, "With the precarious conditions of life today, I have to keep checking to see if I'm still here"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 16

Gordo by Gus Arriola, December 20 1972:

Poosy Gato finds a comfortablr sleeping berth in the nativity set

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 15

Gordo by Gus Arriola, July 2 1953:

Senor Dog's fleas join him in a siesta when Coronado provides sleeping powders.

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 15

Gordo by Gus Arriola, May 23 1983:

Gordo enters a room but forgets why. Tehuana Mama coddles him. "There there Lopez, growing old isn't so bad. I'll make you a nice cup of chocolate. hm?"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 14

Gordo by Gus Arriola, March 24 1982:

Gordo tosses Senor Dog a doggie bag from his latest date. Dog growls at the other pwets to keep them back. "When restaurants come up with owly bags and cocky bags, you'll be the first to know"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 14

Gordo by Gus Arriola, October 16 1981:

Gordo's 40th anniversary!
Owl: Forty years hasn't slowed him down a whit.
Dog: You've heard of second wind.
Owl: Yeah, comes right before second childhood
Popo: Bum rap our numero uno being second anything, no?

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 13

Gordo by Gus Arriola, April 28 1971:

Owl closes the blinds, turns off the fsaucet and closes the door. "It's no bed of roses for us day sleepers" he says from under a pillow.

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 13

Gordo by Gus Arriola, January 5 1970:

Gordo celebrates newfound bachelorghood when his nephew goes to college, forgetting the pets at home!
Pig: Suppose he had an accident?
Poosy: Not in the Comet, it;s out back!
Dog: Amigos, we are victims of el cambio de los tiempos!

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 12

Gordo by Gus Arriola, November 19 1961:

Two termites learn that you can't relax in a marimba.

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 11

Gordo by Gus Arriola, February 14 1971:

Canary unveils a new trick -- he can sing Streisand: "PEEPle, PEEPle who need PEEPle, are the luckiest PEEPle in the world"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 10

Gordo by Gus Arriola, June 3 1969:

Bug Rogers catches a fly in his baseball diamond-shaped web. "It's a pop fly to third base."

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 10

Gordo by Gus Arriola, January 12 1959:

Pepito explains a googleplex to Gordo, "it's more than all the grans of sand on all the beaches in the world." Gordo imagines beaches filled with gorjiss gorls, "I can think of better things to do at the beach than count grains of sand."

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 9

Gordo by Gus Arriola, April 26 1957:

Gordo fills his bathtun with his usual concoction: Heliottrope, jasmine, hyacinth, narcissus, gardenia, lilac, apple blossom -- and one leetle bitty bottle -- water!

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 9

Gordo by Gus Arriola, April 1 1954:

Gordo launches El Cometa for the first time, going at rocket speeds.
Gordo: Hey, why's your face green, Juan Pablo? You get car sick?
Juan Pablo: No, air-sick!

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 8

Gordo by Gus Arriola, October 26 1953:

The cow suffers an early morning milking "Pepito's nails need cutting again" it thinks. The little figure leaves, revealing itself to be Poosy Gato in possession of a whole byucket of milk. A caption reads "If you don't get this gag, use your homogenation"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 8

Gordo by Gus Arriola, March 1 1963:

Gordo: I think we need a new mirror, Pepito. This one's cracking up -- it makes little lines around the eyes, and mouth, and streaks in the hair.
Pepito: Let's see. Doesn't on me!
Gordo: I was afraid you'd say that.

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 7

Gordo by Gus Arriola, August 16 1962:

Poosy checks every window and door during a rainy day "Rats, it's raining outside every door and window today!"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 7

Gordo by Gus Arriola, January 12 1962:

Handsome Al Galente muses on the pains of being handsome -- "men clawing at my throat, women swooning at my feet"
Gordo: Need anybody to tidy up after you?

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 6

Gordo by Gus Arriola, February 4 1982:

Gordo is doing a card trick with Senor Dog, who sits at the table with a card in his mouth.
Tehuana Mama: What are you up to, Lopez?"
Gordo: "I'm trying to teach an old dog a new trick!"
Mama: "He's no magician, Senor Dog. It'll be the one with the fang marks."

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 6

Gordo by Gus Arriola, August 11 1980:

Gordo, watching a young woman walk by: "Girl watching is what separates man from beast, Juanito.
Dog: The conceit of humans! Animal is clearly 'any member of the group of living beings typically capable of spontaneous movement and rapid motor response to stimulation, as distinguished from a plant! -- I'm not exactly dogwood!"
Popo: "Nor I cocklebur!"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 5

Gordo by Gus Arriola, January 19 1947:

Pelon tallies up the expenses his opportunistic friends rack up when they swing by his bar for "band practice." "Aw, what the hak!" he declares, "I'll jus' charge all that grapejuice to operating expenses! A businessman got to have a hobby!"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 4

Gordo by Gus Arriola, November 3 1974:

Poosy counts on his "fingers" while sitting on top the dresser: There was the time I licked the caviar canapes, and when I snagged a thread on his doubleknit slacks, and chewed the light cord, clawed the door, and when I took a swipe at ther goldfish. Lesee, shucks! I figure I got three or four lives left! So ... (he settles down on top of a folded shirt on the dresser) Heck, I can risk a snooze on his pongee shirt!"

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 3

Gordo by Gus Arriola, March 10 1948:

Gordo's time with the gorls is beaten by Coronado performing one of his magic tricks.
Gordo: What are you doing out this late, you juvenile delinquent? How do you expeck to get up early for school tomorow?
Conchita: Coronado doesn't go to school, Gordo, he's too young.
Gordo: I don't think so. He should go to school. In Sweetzerland. I'll be only too happy to pay his intuition!

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 3

Gordo by Gus Arriola, September 10 1983:

Trailing Arbutus is "driving" his toy car over the pets.
Arbutus: VROOM! BEEP BEEP VROOM!
Poosy: How come they don't recall that menacing car?
Dog: I'm going out and sleep in the street! It's safer!

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 2

Gordo by Gus Arriola, October 28 1972

Panchito the playworm: Think of it, Porfirio. This nourishing earth, this astral adobe, this -- this geologic meat of ours is four and a half billion years old!
Panchito: That how I like my round ground, well-aged.

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 2

Gordo by Gus Arriola, January 20 1970: Gordo decides it's time to hire a housekeeper!

Gordo surveys his empty kitchen.
Gordo: Somebody's been eatin' my food and sleepin' in my bed again! And it sain't Goldilocks! Hate to take this step, but a single man, away from home all day, is a fat mark!
(speaking to someone at the door of a home)
Person: She's at the mercado Senor Lopez. She'll be back any minute, won't you come in and wait?
Gordo: Gracias chica

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 1

Gordo by Gus Arriola, October 13 1964: An unknowing Gordo is menaced by an old enemy -- the Widow's Weed!

Gordo sings a ditty about gorls as the menacing Widow's Weed emerges to pursue him...

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jul 1

Gordo by Gus Arriola, February 8 1979:

PM the cat: Let's practice your Irish Meow, Bete Noire.
Poosy Gato: Irish Meow?
PM: Yes, that endearing halg purr/half meow. Okay baby ...
Bete Noire: MURRAY YOW
PM: Beautiful! That'll get you anything! Food, affection, you name it!

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jun 30

Gordo by Gus Arriola, May 16 1984: Comic strip often reuse jokes, this one last appeared seven years prior (or earlier today, if you check the account)

Dog, to Poosy sratching a tree: Easy guy, scratch through the oter bark to the cambium and the tree dies! Go claw a door, chair, wall or rug.
Poosy: If I do that, I die.

¡Gordo Y Más!@gordo-y-mas· Jun 30

Gordo by Gus Arriola, June 29 1977: Keep this gag in mind for later today...

Tree: Have a heart, cat! Scratch through that outer bark to my cambium and I'll die! Lordy, go claw a door, a chair, a rug!
Cat: If I do that, I'll die!