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He was created back in 1961 , inspired on Mauricio's real life grandfather's brother. It first came to public in 1963 , in a short cartoon with two other characters, his best friend Zeke and his japanese friend Taka . DESCRIPTION Chuck is a tipical Brazilian Hillbilly (more like a country person), who walks bare foot, always with a Straw hat and live in a country little town. He loves to go for fishing and swimming in the river. Back in the 1980s the cartoon was polemic due to the dialogues. Mauricio was trying to represent how a hilly billy would talk by writing his lines with typical mistakes and incorrections of Portuguese language. Later on that was adapted and every mistake is indicated either in bold or some variant ways. Different from other Mauricio's characters, Chuck Billy was always marked as a scholar kid, and he even goes to schools in his stories, even while he is not exactly a good student at all. He commits every kind of mistake a student can do, such as getting late and bad grades, not paying attention to class. He is also the biggest work after Monica's Gang, and he have his own cartoon magazine and even some VHS and DVD movies, following Monica's steps. His cartoons have impact in Italy (Monica would have double audience when comming together with him) and caused more polemic in Singapore , due to Islamic radicalists (xiita) protests against Chuck swimming clearly nude in the river, even while he is a 7-year old kid. RELATED |
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