Memín Pinguín is a comic character from Mexico. Stories featuring him, a very poor Afro-Mexican boy, first appeared in the 1940s and have remained in print since. The character is known as Memín Pingüín by some Mexicans due to a publisher's change, when they found that the word pingo, whence pinguín, was a slang term for "penis" in some countries, but later it was restored to Pinguín.
Memín was a creation of the late and famed writer Yolanda Vargas Dulché, and currently, there are talks about making a motion picture based on the magazine and its characters.
Memín was first featured in the 1940s in a comic book called "Pepín" and was later given his own magazine. The character originally was created by Alberto Cabrera in 1943, and later was drawn by Sixto Valencia Burgos. Sixto exaggerated the character by the instruction of Yolanda Vargas Dulché. Sixto also cites Ebony White as an influence. The original series had 372 chapters printed in sepia, and it has been......
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