Don Chepito Mariguano

Don Chepito Mariguano (Mr. Chepito the Pothead)—here posing as Hamlet, contemplating a skull—was a comically unscrupulous recurring character in the broadsides and pamphlets published by Vanegas Arroyo and illustrated by Posada. Considered to be Mexico’s first cartoon character, Don Chepito was typically the butt of jokes for being a bourgeois wimp.

Don Chepito Mariguano —aquí posando como Hamlet contemplando una calavera— era un popular personaje de Posada y de Vanegas Arroyo. Lo crearon como una sátira a los señoritos burgueses y se caracterizaba por su descarada comicidad. Varios caricaturistas consideran ahora a don Chepito como el primer personaje del cómic mexicano.