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Ot el bruixot

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Author(s)
  
Picanyol

Genre(s)
  
Childish

Illustrator(s)
  
Picanyol

Ot el bruixot

Alternate name(s)
  
Ot el brujo(in spanish) Ot the warlock (in english)

Ot el bruixot (Ot the warlock) is a comic book series created by Picanyol in 1971, the most popular of his author. It is composed of dumb jokes of few vignettes (of 1 to 5). Where the text only appears when the same characters of the comic can read it and in the constant onomatopoeias, including those that refer to their spells.

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Editorial path

This character appeared for the first time in the double number 215/216 of the childish magazine "Cavall Fort" in 1971, and has appeared uninterruptedly in the magazine from number 218.

From 2009, and to celebrate the 40 years of the character, and until 2011, Norma Editorial has published three volumes compilations intending to collect all the comic strips of Ot.

The stories of Ot, el bruixot

His wanderings have been included in the collections of Ot, el bruixot of the Editorial Pirene, both Castilian and Catalan, and also the editorial La Galera produced a collection that calls Ot, el bruixot. Edicions Baula also published, in Catalan, tales (no jokes) childish with Ot like protagonist.

Published titles

  • Layer Magic Ot
  • Ot and the rain
  • Ot reads a story
  • The dragon of Ot
  • Ot makes a joke
  • The Bumblebee

    • Argument and characters

    The main character is Ot, a wizard dressed of black that with his magic fixes distinct situations. As soon what it does it is help others as pranks other people (with frequency to the rich strong and powerful).

    Other recurrent characters are:

  • The owl: it is used to be an observer, although often it goes out injured.
  • The wife Berta: egocentric and choleric, and the minimum is set to pursue Ot using the broom as a garrote. She has no powers.
  • The police: often persecuted Ot by his malfeasance, but never reaches it.
  • The thief: always tried to steal something from Ot's house or from another place but Ot or his wife are always there to stop it.
  • The castaway: he is always on an island waiting for something, and Ot gives you what you want

    • Despite going to the old dress, appear a lot of references to the modern times that do not have to consider anachronisms if it takes into account that Ot has the power to travel in the time.

    Adaptations and legated

    It has done a representation with puppets with this character, and has been the protagonist of the Juegotes, computer games, edited by Multimedia Barcelona.

    In the municipality of Moià, from where it originated Picanyol, there is a monument devoted to Ot.

    References

    Ot el bruixot Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA