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Chuck Billy (''Chico Bento'' in the original Brazilian strips) is the main character from Chuck Billy 'n' Folks, created by Brazilian cartoonist Mauricio de Sousa. He is the biggest work of Mauricio after Monica's Gang, and he has his own cartoon magazine and even some VHS and DVD movies, following Monica's steps. == History == He was created back in 1961, inspired on Mauricio's real life grandfather's brother, whose stories were told by his grandmother, who would inspire a character from the same universe: Vó Dita, described as Chuck's grandmother. It first came to public in 1961, in a short cartoon with two other characters, his best friend Benny and his Japanese friend Taka.〔(Chico Bento at Monica's Gang official website )〕 Back in the 1980s, the cartoon was polemic due to the dialogues. Mauricio was trying to represent how a hillbilly would talk by writing his lines with typical mistakes and incorrections of Brazilian Portuguese (actually the caipira dialect, which is not considered a dialect in Brazil). Later on, that was adapted and every mistake is indicated either in bold or some variant ways. In 2009, a polemical short strip featuring Chuck Billy and an anonymous character was featured in an issue of ''Viva!'' magazine, released in the Brazilian state of Bahia to assist teachers of the state schools. The strip featured a boy saying "My father has more than 800 heads of cattle",〔in Brazil, when referring to the number of individuals living in a cattle, people normally use the expression "''cabeça de gado''", which means "head of cattle".〕 to which Chuck answers: "Tell him to take them all up his ass." In the original strip, the boy asks the same thing but ends his sentence with "...what about yours, Chuck?". Billy then simply answers: "My father's got only one cow, but he's got the whole thing."〔 Mauricio de Sousa later stated in his Twitter profile:〔 Governor of Bahia Jaques Wagner later apologized for the error. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Billy (Chuck Billy 'n' Folks)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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