Pepe Gotera y Otilio, or more completePepe Gotera y Otilio, chapuzas a domicilio (roughly: Pepe Leak and Otilio, botched jobs home delivered) areSpanishcomic characters of the series of the same name created byFrancisco 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.

• Pepe Gotera is the boss, the foreman, meaning that he only gives orders and works as little as possible. He always wears a redbowler hat and aGroucho 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 andoverall. At the beginning of every comic he appears eating completely absurd and excessive dishes (such as a sandwich ofelephant,whale,cow, etc.) and later when working he uses very rustic and unsafe methods for carrying out the work.

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 withMort 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 theTío 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 titledEl castillo de los Pelhamcudy, byJuan Martínez Osete.^[2]

Several television critics have commented that the TV seriesManos a la obra, broadcast inAntena 3 from 1998 to 2001 is inspired by this comic.^[3]

• Pepe Gotera y Otilio in mortadeloyfilemon.com(in Spanish)

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