La familia Cebolleta

'La familia Cebolleta The Scalion Family
Created by:	Manuel Vázquez Gallego
Genre:	Humor, slapstick
Publisher:	Editorial Bruguera
Original publication period:	1951
Country of origin:	Spain
Language of origin:	Spanish

La familia Cebolleta (The Scalion Family) is a Spanish comic series created by Manuel Vázquez Gallego in 1951 for the magazine El DDT. It was one of the three most famous series of his author, alongside with Las hermanas Gilda (1949) and Anacleto, agente secreto (1965),^[1] appearing in numerous magazines of Bruguera publishing house.

Plot

The series features the comical misadventures formed by:

• Don Rosendo, the father, bald, with a mustache and bow tie, he is always in some kind of trouble ;
• Doña Laura, the mother and housewife
• Diógenes, the son, a naughty little child who was bald in the first strips but became blonde later;
• Pocholita (or Lolita), the daughter, a very attractive young girl who appeared very rarely;
• Jeremías, a somewhat cinical parrot who is always smoking a cigar and
• The grandfather Cebolleta, with his huge white beard and his endless verbiage ("once I was in the Sepoy's front when blah, blah, blah ...."), he became one of the most remembered of the characters of Bruguera. Obsessed with telling improbable war anecdotes, he has passed onto the colloquial language through the idiom: "Talking more than the Cebolleta Grandfather".^[1]

Vázquez also drew two other strips about families (La Familia Gambérrez and La Familia Churumbel) but La familia Cebolleta is the most famous one.^[1]

In other media

In the film El gran Vázquez the characters of Jeremías the Parrot and Grandfather Cebolleta appear in a scene, animated by Phillip Vallentin for the company Espresso Animation.^[2]

References

Bibliography

• GUIRAL, Antoni (2010). By Vázquez: 80 años del nacimiento de un mito. Barcelona: Ediciones B. ISBN 978-84-666-4420-4
• MARTÍNEZ PEÑARANDA, Enrique (2004). Vázquez (El dibujante y su leyenda). Madrid: Ediciones Sinsentido, Colección Sin Palabras, Serie A nª 04. ISBN 84-95634-49-X. Legal deposit: M-39015-2004.