Editing Condorito (section)

===Origins===
[[Image:MC0031801.jpg|right|thumb|The first Condorito collection, published in Chile in 1955|239x239px]]

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]]. In the film, while the Disney characters are represented as humorous versions of ''[[charro]]s'', ''[[gaucho]]s'', etc., [[Chile]] was represented as Pedro, a small airplane engaged in his very first flight, whose attempt to fly over the [[Andes]] to pick up [[air mail]] from [[Mendoza, Argentina|Mendoza]] is humorously depicted. Pepo created ''Condorito'' in response to what he perceived as a slight to the image of Chile.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

The first publication of a Condorito comic strip was in the first issue of ''Okey'' magazine, owned by Zig-Zag,<ref name="biobio20121215" /> on August 6, 1949.<ref>[http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/index.asp?id_ut=condorito(1949-) ''Memoria Chilena: Condorito (1949-)'']</ref> In it, Condorito appeared as a thief of occasional chickens, who later regrets eating them. and tries to return it to the chicken coop but is stopped by a police officer and imprisoned. In the Condorito prison, he imagined the policeman eating the tasty chicken.<ref name="biobio20121215" /> The comic strip was two full pages long.

Condorito's following publications were based on a character who came from the countryside driven by the [[Rural flight|rural-urban migration]] that lived in Chile during the 1950s; Condorito's personality was that of a joker, witty and mischievous.<ref name="biobio20121215" /> According to screenwriter [[Jorge Montealegre]], «Condorito's profile in the first cartoons is focused on the Chilean roto [...] where very Chilean institutions are addressed, such as the ''compadrazgo'' with Don Chuma and the ''huacherío'' through Coné».<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.duna.cl/programa/aire-fresco/2019/02/25/jorge-montealegre-sobre-condorito-fue-una-escuela-para-muchos-dibujantes-que-vieron-en-pepo-un-maestro|title=Jorge Montealegre sobre Condorito: "Fue una escuela para muchos dibujantes que vieron en Pepo un maestro"|date=February 25, 2019|accessdate=January 2, 2022}}</ref>

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.

By 1955, the year of the appearance of the first collection of Condorito jokes, the character already had its definitive appearance.<ref name="biobio20121215" /> As a publication, ''Condorito'' appeared on December 21 of that year. The comic strip  ''Condorito'' has a characteristic format by which it has been published from its origins in a specific range of colors that only include red, brown, pink, black, white, gray and, from time to time, the green.

One of the only surviving cartoonists who worked with Pepo at the beginning of Condorito is the cartoonist Hernán Vidal (Hervi) who, at just 13 years old, became Pepo's assistant.