El botones Sacarino (bellhop Saccharino) is a Spanish comic character of the series of the same name created by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera in 1963 focusing on the comic adventures of a clumsy bellhop and the disasters he unintentionally caused in the office he worked for.
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| Publisher | Editorial Bruguera |
| First appearance | El DDT (June 10, 1963) |
| Created by | Francisco Ibáñez |
It was created in 1963 by Francisco Ibáñez for the magazine El DDT with one page strips.[1] The character was heavily inspired by Andre Franquin's Gaston Lagaffe, indeed it is somewhat of a merge between him and Spirou (the latter because of the bellhop uniform).[2][3] Some of the first pages are almost identical of ones of Gaston Lagaffe.[1]
That similarity was reduced in 1966 with the introduction of a new original character, the Director (el Dire), who received orders from the President (el Presi). The dynamic of the series also changed, as it was usually the President being harmed by the consequences of Sacarino's actions and ideas, with the Director being mistakenly blamed for them (Sacarino still maintained the sympathy of the readers, because his gaffes were unintentional and because the Director was very despotic with his employees). The strips were then two pages long.
In 1973, Sacarino became the main character of the magazine Tío Vivo. In 1975, there were two short lived magazines named after him "Sacarino" and "Super Sacarino".[4]
After 1980, Ibáñez did no longer drew the series, all strips after this date are from other Bruguera authors, most of them uncredited.
There was an unsuccessful homonymous television series adaptation in 2000, broadcast on La 1.[6]
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