[EveningStar]

A giant of American culture has passed.

[EveningStar]

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[SunnyUsa]

never heard of him or the cartoon

[The KG9 Kid]

I remember the strip when I was a kid. I grew up around a lot of Hispanics in the desert of SoCal.

Gordo had barnyard animals capable of speaking with one another and they were owned by a big fat Mexican with a pencil thin mustache.

It was an interesting comic. Rest in Peace, Mr. Arriola.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[JimSEA]

RIP Gus, you brought much pleasure to a lot of us. People in Superior, AZ, where I grew up and later worked, always thought that Pelon (baldy) the bar keep, was taken from a local who owned “Chapo’s Place” and ran a card game in the back room (It wasn’t true of course but that never stops a good story).

[sionnsar]

Very sad!

[Fiddlstix]

I grew up on the border. I remember Gordo. He drove a little bus named La Cometa Halley (Halley's Comet) among other things.
That comic strip was enjoyed by all of us back in those days. (Both Anglo and Hispanic found it funny)
Gordo probably wouldn't be published today because of PC crap.
BTW, "Gordo" means "fat man".

[Cacique]

Who?

[Fiji Hill]

In the mid-1960's, Gordo was carried by The Stars and Stripes, the newspaper for Amerian servicemen and their dependents in Europe. At the time, I lived in Darmstadt, Germany, where my father was a teacher for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools, and I looked forward to reading Gordo every Sunday.

[logician2u]

One of my favorites, too. Arriola could poke fun at both Anglo and Mexican culture in a way that did not offend, and the dialect was downright funny, in the same way that Li'l Abner's characters came off as humorous without degrading the hillbilly culture (any more than necessary).

I particularly remember a series of several months of strips featuring a wealthy family of Texans doing the tourist bit, getting hauled around in Halley's Comet. The wife was trying to start a "Jun-ya League" among the society set, without much luck.

The comics sure aren't what they used to be.

[John Jorsett]

I read Gordo for many years and liked it a lot. I didn’t know why he ended it until now. Sad.