The Burron Family

La Familia Burrón is a Mexican comic strip created in 1948 by Gabriel Vargas. It came to throw 500,000 copies. It began in 1948, and the last number, 1616, appeared on August 26, 2009, for more than 60 years of uninterrupted publication. It addresses the adventures of a lower-class family in Mexico City, and is one of the main representatives of the medium in their country.

Editorial trajectory

The second period of the publication of La Familia Burrón began in 1978, thanks to Editorial G y G, which published it every Tuesday until today.

Editorial Porrúa published a series of books that compile comics from the second era of the Burrón, which were selected by Gabriel Vargas himself.

Plot

La Familia Burrón consistently presents a humorous critique of Mexican society and its positive and negative qualities, from the perspective of a low-income family. As Armando Bartra explains:

Far from the family strips that present the nuclear family as self-sufficient microcosm, that of the Burrón is a Gregaria saga that incorporates equally to direct relatives, distant relatives, friends and neighbors, in a mass prominence of Latin root very distant from the Anglo-Saxon individualism of “Bringing up Father” (Mc Manus) or “Blondie” (Chic Young). And by choosing the neighborhood as a stage, the protagonistism, besides collective, becomes a woman.

The Burrón Tacuche family

Los Burrón are a typical lower-class family that lives in a neighborhood in Mexico City, D.F, located in "Callejón del Cuajo number zillion chochenta y chocho".

Its members are Don Regino Burrón, a hairdresser by profession and owner of the hair salon "El Rizo de Oro", Borola Tacuche de Burrón, Macuca Burrón Tacuche, Regino Burrón Tacuche, the boy Fóforo Cantarranas (adopted by the Donkeys) and the family pet, Wilson the puppy.

Mrs. Borola Tacuche de Burrón

She is the head of the family and the main character of the comic. Borola Tacuche was born into a very wealthy and renowned family in Mexico City. Since she was little, she was distinguished for being mischievous and crazy, getting her friends into trouble, especially Regino Burrón. Borola and Regino cared for each other a lot, despite belonging to different social classes, and the girl's aunt and guardian, Mrs. Cristeta Tacuche, held little Regino in great esteem for being a serious, educated and hardworking child. At some point in her youth, she Borola fell in love with the lowly Regino, spurning a plethora of wealthy suitors on his behalf. Cristeta respected Borola's decision.

Despite her age (which is a topic dealt with infrequently in the comic), she considers herself extremely attractive, swaggering down the street to the delight of men in a way that makes her family, especially her husband and your daughter, embarrass. She claims to have been a great vedette of the theaters, and more than once she has returned to the "encueratriz" business, although most of her former friends and employers consider her already out of age. Being called old annoys her greatly, claiming that she is "a girl of the twenty-first century", a reasoning that allows her not to limit herself and to explore trades as diverse as race car driver, masked fighter, surgeon or engineer. empirical.

Both she and her daughter Macuca dress in the latest fashion. Dona Borola's wardrobe always includes ostentatious hats, designer boots and, regardless of the weather, a thick fur coat, whose origin "is lost in the mists of time". When someone asks her how she manages to dress herself in such a way, she replies that she gets the money "from what she spends, which is highly suspicious, since the amount she receives For this reason, it is extremely meager. The truth is that her money is sporadically obtained from shady businesses, which she carries out behind her husband's back.

Creative, impulsive and outgoing, she always gets into trouble, in order to get the family out of their eternal poverty, besides that because of her good heart, she always tries to help other people within the neighborhood in which she lives. inhabits, people who also live in very poor conditions (although sometimes they also try to take advantage of them). Borola represents the spirit and inventiveness of the Mexican, knowing how to get ahead in any implausible project that gets into his hands.

Some of his inventions and projects include a wooden helicopter powered by a washing machine motor; a cannon for personal travel; a cable car; a sputnik made with a water tank and the engine of her blender, with which she managed to enter Earth orbit, and a single-seater plane, to go to rescue her husband in Africa, invited to hunt by a prankster friend of his, and who abandoned him to his fate on the "Prieto Continent".

For the benefit of the neighbors and their dozens of children who live in the neighborhood, it has built an alternate underground transportation network, to prevent the neighbors and their children from being run over when trying to cross the road axes; she has hunted ostriches from the zoo for Christmas dinner; cooked newspaper dumplings garnished with bean weevils and car tires; Necessity has forced her to make broth with pieces of car tires and rubber dust; With the support of the neighbors, she has raided department stores and markets in the style of the old west, keeping anonymity with luchador masks and leaning on her "carabiner". He has carried out hundreds of other adventures, most of which end with countless injuries, such as when he decided to steal the gas from the next building through a hose, causing a brutal explosion. Facts like the above have led Mrs. Borola to prison, from which she was released in a short time, thanks to her relations with members of the police.

On one occasion he even removed the skeleton from his body, because he was afraid of "bringing a skull inside.

Despite having a good heart, Borola is also ambitious and quick to fight. Her strength and ability for street fighting is notable (she is an expert in wrestling, martial arts, and "yucatecan skate"), managing to subdue several men larger than her at the same time, although not without her consequences. She usually carries an iron plate or the hand of the metate in her handbag, and for more extreme situations she does not take long to use hers, always faithful to her "carabiner", loaded with expanding bullets. Despite this, her neighbors always look to her for advice or to solve her problems, as they consider her an intelligent person with good judgment, as well as a refined "high class" lady. # 3. 4;.

She continues to be an excellent woman, a housewife, and gives her time to fulfill other household duties and be vigilant about the education and conduct of her children, whom she defends as a "lion of black mane". An expert cook, she creates incredible dishes with the limited daily expense provided by her short husband, and is famous for her succulent country meals, which she prepares in less than 5 minutes in her kitchen, which she calls "the laboratory." of the chimoles". Every day she waits perfectly dressed and dolled up for her husband and her children who come to eat without fail at 2 in the afternoon and to what they call "doing for life".

Extremely jealous, she does not allow any woman around her Regino, whom she is constantly jealous of, attributing imaginary love affairs to him.

With such different personalities, the only thing that keeps Borola and Regino together is the love and respect that they profess for each other and their weakness for dancing of any style, since both are great at getting sparks on the dance floor.

Borola Tacuche

Don Regino Burrón

Don Regino is the father of the family, a hairdresser by profession, owner of the business "El Rizo de Oro". His task as head of the family is to bring home the money from his work and put a stop to the follies of his wife Borola. With an extremely calm and conservative character, he can be timid (of which his wife always accuses him), however, everyone agrees that his mark is decency, honesty and respectability.

Regino was friends with Borola since he was a child, although their families differed in social class. Regino's economic situation worsened after the death of his father, before which he abandoned his studies to dedicate himself to the family business of hairdressing. When they became orphans, Regino's brothers went to live with certain uncles in the provinces, while the young Burrón remained in the capital in charge of the business. Initially, his intention to pretend to Borola was rejected by her family, but later Cristeta recognized and supported her relationship.

Despite the fact that his family lives in complete poverty, Regino's pride prevents him from accepting the help of his extremely wealthy aunt-in-law, using her resources only in situations of great emergency; the same thing happens with his friends, the Tinocos. His annoyance with Borola is evident when she tries to find a job or carry out a project to help around the house, alleging that, as the husband, it is his duty to bring the daily sustenance (the fact that Borola constantly seeks a job as an exotic dancer doesn't help much). Although his traditional-style hair salon receives fewer clients each day, Regino is reluctant to change his line, or even his style, which does not prevent him from going out from time to time to sell homemade cosmetics or groom pets in wealthy houses when the situation it is very critical.

Regino Burrón

Regino Burrón Tacuche, El Tejocote

Regino Chico, also called "El Tejocote" Because of his ball nose and red hair, he is the eldest son of the Burrón Tacuche couple.

In some episodes of the comic it is revealed that he is a dedicated student, in an "Academy", where commercial careers are taught, which he goes to in the afternoons, after helping his father in the hairdresser throughout the morning and until lunchtime; of a serious and formal character, although without ceasing to show the impetus of his age and some other impulsive traits, undoubtedly inherited from his mother, Borola.

However, in the vast majority of his appearances in the comic he is shown as the right-hand man of his father Don Regino at the hair salon "El Rizo de Oro", whom "El Tejocote& #3. 4; respect and obey above everything and everyone.

Regino Burrón Tacuche

Macuca Burrón Tacuche, La Pecocha

Macuca is the only daughter of the Burrón couple and therefore, the darling of the house, whom her parents and siblings are jealous and protect with zeal. As a particular feature, she is the only character in the entire comic that does not have a round nose.

Naive and innocent, Macuca, known as "La Pecocha", spends almost all of her time helping her mother with the housework and accompanying her in her singular initiatives, of which almost she is always insecure and even embarrassed.

Similarly, in some episodes of the comic it is revealed that she is a student at an academy "for young ladies". Macuca Burrón is the archetypal character of the decent and honest "daughters of the family" in the Mexican middle class of the mid-twentieth century.

Macuca Burrón

Fóforo Cantarranas

Actually, Fóforo is the adopted son of this humble and humane family. Foforito, like Regino Chico, is Regino's assistant in "El Rizo de oro".

Foforito's real father is Don Susano Cantaranas, a scavenger and consummate drunk who practically abandoned the boy in the hands of this family from a young age. Foforito's family situation came to a crisis when a woman, also a waste picker and known in the garbage dump as "Divine Chuy", entered the life of his unobligated father. The charms of this one of hers cause the child's helpless father to neglect him even more. This is the moment in which the Burrón couple decided to rescue him and incorporate him into the family, as one more very dear member. Whenever he can, Foforito's father resorts to blackmail to "sell" to his son (although this has changed over time). In any case, Fóforo is one more member of the Burrón, since he is loved and taken as such, and can be considered a true Burrón. Foforito's biological mother is Lucy Yadira, "la Gitana".

Foforito is an excellent child. In addition to helping his father at the hairdresser's with his brother & # 34; El Tejocote & # 34;, this noble-hearted little boy is a student and music lover. He plays the mandolin and studies music at the academy of maestro Bibiano Torrija, where his close friends Isidro Cotorrón and Sinfónico Fonseca also study, as well as the girl Alubia Salpicón.

It is important to note the kindness of the family, which adopts the child despite being "abject poverty," as some of the characters would say.

Foforito Cantarranas

Wilson the dog

The Family's dog, named Wilson, does not have a defined breed, but is always present on their adventures, having the habit of accompanying Don Regino and his children to the "Rizo de Oro". At least one chapter was dedicated to the pet, narrating his adventures when he got lost because he could not accompany his owners in the truck, so he was run over by a cyclist and ended up in a dump where after talking (in the dog language) With several dogs, he begins the journey back home, being welcomed after spending the night in the doorway of a wealthy lady and coincidentally a lover of dogs who orders them to bathe and perfume him, but when trying to live with the dogs of The lady is attacked and escapes from the house, reaching the hands of Mr. Burrón, who returns him to his home and ends the anguish of the family.

Side characters

Cristeta Tacuche

Borola's aunt, she is a billionaire and has lived in Paris for several years after emigrating from Mexico due to the persecution of millionaires during the Echeverría government. Nicknamed "the Queen of Paris" or "la Timborota" By her most trusted friends, she employs an army of Mexican maids commanded by Boba Licona, her personal secretary and her closest friend. She has two crocodiles, Pierre and Marcelo, as pets, who inhabit the pool of her mansion. Cristeta fights with them as a morning exercise without the reptiles seeming to want to devour her or her servants. She always sleeps surrounded by her puppies.

Her eternal crush is Toto Roquefort, the "Cheese King," as well as many other suitors whom she gallantly rejects (including the Mustard King and the Norwegian Cod King), as he always finds his unbearable personal habits. He likes to go to dinner at luxurious restaurants in Paris, such as "La Cazuelé", where he regularly orders one of his favorite dishes: torito caper, unborn whale in marinade or canary eyes "piripitifir&# 3. 4;. To "get off" For all these delicacies, they usually ask for a bottle of champagne "for the rich", which, due to its monstrous dimensions, is brought to the table mounted on the carriage of a cannon, which facilitates serving by the glass.

He is the only person in the world who has dedicated himself to traveling the seven seas to throw crumbs of bread to the fish.

During one of the country's repeated economic crises, during the 1980s, he decided to fly from France aboard a private plane, but due to his enmity with the current presidents, he decided to fly over Mexico City, throwing handfuls of tickets from the windows of the ship, in the hope that their relatives manage to catch some that will help them get out, even for a few days, of the desperate poverty to which the bad government has condemned them.

Boba Licona

Cristeta's personal secretary, she is also her best friend. Bobita is the voice of conscience in the mansion and she does not hesitate to reprimand Cristeta for her excesses. In addition to acting as the private secretary of the "Timborota", she acts as a confidant, a lady-in-waiting and a very jealous guardian, not hesitating to go from time to time to watch over Cristeta's sleep, frequently threatened by the practical jokes of her lovers, who do not hesitate to fill her room with poisonous tarantulas or terrible "viborones" in order to convince her to go live with one of them.

Ruperto Tacuche Burrón

Brother of Borola and nephew of Doña Cristeta. A former thief who has now regenerated and leads a decent life as a master baker at 'La Hojaldra' bakery. He lives in love with Bella Bellota, a gentle widow to whom an old partner in misdeeds entrusted him when he died along with his son, Robertino, an innocent creature, who is immobilized by the legs, which is why he is transported in a small box with wheels. The boy adores Ruperto whom he calls uncle.

Their appearance is strange, to say the least. As a child he was hyperactive, which led him to accidentally spill a pot of boiling milk on himself. Disfigured for life, Ruperto entered into a rebellious and self-destructive attitude, finally leaving his aunt's house and surrounding himself with bad company that made him fall into professional crime. Following his accident, he always wears his face covered by a scarf, revealing only a black face. Despite currently being a decent person, his former colleagues always try to get him to return to the job, and the corrupt police officers look for him, intimidate and torture him every time an illegal act is committed related to his past activities and friendships. baker. Ruperto simply resigns himself to this, always trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to make the "tecos" and convince them of the truth.

Without family, he has found a welcome in the modest neighborhood hotel called "El Catre", a place where its humble owner treats him as if he were his own son. At dawn, when he returns from working in the mash, he always carries a paper bag with bread, of which the "campechanas" stand out, which he likes to share with the aforementioned, accompanied by a coffee, prepared in a simple electric grill, in the room of the unfortunate young man.

Ruperto is perhaps the most complex character in the comic, always in the constant dilemma of what to do to survive. His dilemma about righteousness and whether the end justifies the means are reflected in many stories where he tries to get money to help Bellota's son. The particular design of this character is noteworthy, since he has more personality and better reflects Vargas' ingenuity.

Beauty Acorn

Eternal object of platonic love by Ruperto Tacuche. At first, both she and he rejected their obvious attraction to each other: she for being her widow, he for being a friend of her late husband. Dedicated body and soul to the care of her invalid son Robertino, Bella Bellota had recurring problems with Ruperto because of the type of friendships he had. Over time, they both came to accept her feelings, although she remains adamant in refusing to live together without first being legally married.

Robertine

Bella Bellota's son, who suffers from polio and never knew his father. He considers Ruperto as his uncle.

Lucila Ballenato

Nicknamed "La Gorilona" Due to her enormous size, she is the sister of an acquaintance of Ruperto's and, at one point, a candidate for her love. Of questionable morality, she had a particular grudge against the self-righteous Bella whom the baker sought so much, but over time the two women became great friends, much to the displeasure of Ruperto, who has little tolerance for "Gori" 3. 4; Because she is always getting him into trouble, although he enjoys talking with her and knows that she is a true friend. The "Gorilona" He has a brother named Renato Ballenato who is hopelessly lazy.

Don Quirino

Owner and manager of the hotel "El Catre", where Ruperto lives. He likes to talk to him when he returns in the morning from his job as a baker. Don Quirino loves campechanas and chilindrinas souped up with good coffee; he is also a great fan of gossip.

Susano Cantarranas

Foforito's biological father. He is a scavenger who is almost always drunk for getting into the "bear broth" hard; or "tlachicoton" (pulque). Lazy and not very faithful to his wife, Divina Chuy, he has a reputation as a womanizer in the neighborhood where he lives, "EL Lodazal".

The Divine Chuy

Enduring girlfriend of Susanito Cantarranas. Like Susi, as she affectionately calls her, she is a pepenadora and dresses as "encueratriz"; exotic, activity in which she works from time to time. Sometimes she has tried to pay her husband in kind and have affairs with other men, but the love she feels for Susano is great, and she always ends up going back to him. Divina Chuy's last name is rarely mentioned, but in Volume 4 of the series edited by Porrúa on p. 11-A, it is mentioned that she is Chicuil. In this same episode Don Susanito and Divina Chuy get a civil marriage.

Don Titino Tinoco

Don Titino, a wealthy man whose origin of his fortune is unknown, constantly suffers the outrages of his offspring Floro, to whom he has irresponsibly consented. A clear example of the above would be the one that has accustomed him to receiving twenty thousand pesos as "Sunday" and equip him with fast race cars and tiny jet planes, vehicles in which the boy moves, as he himself says, "a thousand an hour". In one of his crazy trips around the country, in command of his tiny but powerful single-seater jet plane, airport employees reported to him that "the ship had disappeared from radar." Desperate, the Tinoco couple arranged to organize an expensive nationwide search, which was aborted some time later, when Floro reported, indicating that he had disappeared because he had gone "to spend a few hours with the Bacanoras Indians".. On one occasion, Floro was accused by his father of having stolen a bill of... a million pesos!, which was not true. Despite this, Mr. Tinoco forced his numerous guards to subject Floro to terrible torture in a dungeon attached to the private prison that his mansion has, only to discover, days later, that the mentioned check was among the pages of a ledger. Only Floro's mother defends her son, who accuses her husband of treating him with extreme cruelty and alleging that the boy is only 14 years old.

Floro Tinoco, aka The Tractor

Son of the wealthy industrialist Titino Tinoco, he is a real headache for his father. Floro is around fourteen years old, although his enormous build makes him bigger than the rest of the characters; his intelligence, however, is another matter. Although he is a genius at manning and fixing high-tech machines (such as his mini planes and cars), academically he leaves much to be desired. He only recently learned to recite the vowels and has never finished the entire alphabet, apart from only knowing the 1's table, which is a headache for any private tutor his millionaire father has hired.

Although he is not a bad person, Floro is always getting into trouble, many times trying to help Doña Borola in her crazy projects. As penance for his continuous destruction of cars, planes and other property, his father usually confines him in his own private jail, which he has all the comforts.

Dona Gamucita Botello Pericocha, widow of Pilongano

Acquaintance of the Burrón family, Gamucita is a little old lady who, despite her advanced age, works hard from sunrise to sunset washing other people's clothes to support her home and her son Avelino, an aspiring poet who is lazy, unkempt and released. She is distinguished by her diminutive stature and huge shoes (almost the size of her body).

Gamucita is the widow of Don Canuto Pilongano, who worked as a tram driver and died in a road accident. She has never hidden the annoyance she feels from seeing her son day after day doing nothing, except composing her lousy piece of poetry.

With justifiable reason, Gamucita despairs, demanding that her son get a real job. Even so, the lady has rarely failed in the duties of her mother, often depriving herself of food to give her son at least refried beans and black coffee (which Avelino contests and curses, although she never rejects). Gamucita sleeps on the floor, because in the humble neighboring room where they live, the only available bed is occupied by her shameless son. She gets up at dawn to go get the clothes she washes, waking her son in the middle of the morning with the aroma of her frugal daily breakfast.

On more than one occasion Gamucita has tried to teach her son a lesson to force him to fend for himself, although she has never succeeded. Trying to get help from her labregon son, on a single occasion, she asked him to help her deliver a gigantic suitcase of freshly washed clothes, which included fine dress shirts from one of her most important clients. Reluctantly, Avelino agreed. While reading a book in the street, he stumbled and the bundle fell into a puddle of mud. It goes without saying that Gamucita never again tried to get help from his useless offspring.

Wanting to teach her a lesson, once, Gamucita secretly ran away from home to spend a whole year with her friends the Burrón, who welcomed her as one of the family, only to return home after his prolonged absence and discovering Avelino in a state of hibernation, sleeping among the cobwebs and dust that had accumulated around the sleeper that year.

Avelino Pilongano

The only son of Doña Gamucita. He was a child prodigy, but his promising intelligence was spoiled at a very tender age when he "fell on his horns" (headfirst) on the Cerro de la Estrella, (in the current Iztapalapa Delegation, to the east of Mexico City) where his Papa took him to fly “papalotes” (that is, kites) and a gust of wind dragged him until he fell from a rocky promontory. Despite being an adult, he lives at the expense of his mother's work, shielded by the pretext that he is dedicated to poetry. But to gauge the quality of his work, here are some verses of which he is the author: & # 34; One-eyed mule, what are you doing behind the door?; Virola mule, I'll step on your tail".

When pressed for paid work, Avelino always argues that an artist of his stature cannot stoop to doing any kind of physical work. He used to surround himself with people with similar tastes to his, with whom he usually spends his days lounging in the gardens of the Mexican capital.

Nicknamed "El Babotas" Due to his constant appearance of self-absorbed and inattentive, the quality of his work as a poet within his universe is not very clear, because despite the fact that his books & # 34; Vibraciones del Caletre & # 34; and & # 34; Bitles de Calzón y Huarache & # 34;, with which he won the San Teporingo de las Iguanas Floral Games, have never been published, he is a respected friend of renowned poets, such as Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsivais.

A cynic at heart, his outlook on life is reflected in his total disregard for his mother: he once planned to marry a young woman as lost as himself, and bluntly asked his mother to leave the house, because "the mother in the house of the newlyweds, does not go"; he also tried to marry Gamucita to a millionaire, so that he could live the high life. Nor does he have any qualms about sleeping in the only bed in his house, not helping his mother with the enormous packages of clothes that she is carrying, or devouring the last portion of refried beans that is left in his house at the expense of his elderly mother's fasting.

To round it all off, on the few occasions when he is actually willing to work, he suffers all sorts of misfortunes, such as falling off a building under construction while working as a bricklayer's helper, getting stuck in an elevator while working as an elevator operator, or being floured and baked (literally) while apprenticing as a baker at "La Hojaldra". These events only further support his arguments against the job.

In one of the chapters, Avelino finally gets a job according to his skills, he is hired to sleep peacefully in the mattress section on a sideboard of a furniture store in public view, of course he does his job very well without However, he resigns after a few days of "hard work" because he came home very tired from working. Needless to say, his protective mother supports him in his decision.

Salpicon Beans

A friend of Foforito's, she is an outstanding and virtuous student of the tololoche, an instrument that Alubia always carries on her back despite exceeding her short stature. Thanks to the fact that she received a large inheritance from a couple who highly esteemed her, Alubia usually keeps various provisions and implements in the instrument's resonance box to help those in need, although sometimes they abuse the great generosity of she.

Kakiko Kukufate

He is an alien from the planet Mars, whose first appearance occurs in episode 86, dated May 2, 1980. His appearance is that of a small green being, with scaly skin, antennae, ears like horns, and a single very large eye on the forehead. Kakiko Kukufate meets the Burrón after first contacting Doña Borola, leaving her a transmitter to communicate with her from Mars, or Karakatiako, as her inhabitants call the red planet. The Martian and Borola will establish a great friendship, which would make Borola Tacuche one of the first Mexicans to have a close encounter with an extraterrestrial being. According to Kakiko, an ideal society lives on Mars in which no one suffers deprivation, there are no wars or corruption, but this idyllic society was only built after harshly punishing the corrupt and exploiters. Kakiko clarifies that in her language Karakatiako means the Place of Eternal Peace, so her society and his technology are therefore superior to their terrestrial counterparts. Martians feed on air and their mood is denoted by their body temperature, which is very cold when their mood is good and hot when they are angry. According to Regino, his scales cut like razors, which is why he doesn't like being hugged by the Martian too much. Martians also have the ability to make themselves invisible to humans. The language of the Martians abounds in the use of syllables with the letters "k"and "f". As a curiosity, one can cite the fact that the ships of the Martians in La Familia Burrón resemble George Adamski's flying saucers. This character could well be one of the most original in Mexican science fiction.

Other characters

• Synphon Fonseca: Friend and companion of Foforito; plays the "bombardon", instrument similar to the tuba.
• Isidro Cotorrón: Compañero and friend of Foforito and Sinfónico, play the violin.
• Count Satan Carroña: Vampire is addicted to the blood, to which he calls "water of jamaica", has special hobby for seducing young girls in danzón rooms and then "sacarles the mole", the older ladies dislike, since "their blood has grumes".
• Every time of Carroña: Spouse of Satan Carroña, is a skeleton, as it belongs to the world of ghosts can disappear and become invisible at will, especially when it is upset with her husband and does not want to talk to him. He dislikes fat people because "there are no fat skeletons."
• Narcissus or "Chicho": Count Carroña's butler, who owes his green color to having hundreds of years of not sleeping.
• Pinga Diabla: Vampire friend of Satan Carroña.
• Don Sombroso Mortis: Calacon character, friend of Cadaverina.
• The Devil Lamberto: Major Devil and Lord of Hell.
• Telesforeto Colín, the "Sapo-Rana": Pepenador friend of Don Susano and of the divine Chuy; affluent ventriloquist come at least for the vices of alcohol, his Pompeyo doll is his conscience.
• Don Briagoberto Memelas: Ambicious and trinque cacique of "La Coyotera" and breeder of "quaco-pollos" (horse and chicken mixture).
• Don Juanón Teporochas: Cacique de "San Cirindango de las Iguanas", friend of Don Briagoberto and compadre de Don Regino.
• Generous, the bird: Its land limits with the lands of the three caciques.
• The güen Caperuzo: Cacique of "The Valley of the Scorpions".
• Floripondio Caballete. Cacique dedicated to polish production.
• Caledonia: Sister of the güen Caperuzo.
• Jovito Capaloros: Diputadete por chocientavo district, arbitrario, abusivo y con su matona al cinto, es la versión actualizada de don Filemón Metralla y Bomba.
• The wild peterete: Mix of horse and cow to whom Generoso taught to speak.
• The currutaco llanero: Extraña ave coming from the Mapimí Bolsón and friend of Borola, who understands his complicated "idioma".
• The Witch Julisa: Generous Beloved.
• Felipa Rejon, Ranch music singer, in love with Don Briagoberto Memelas.
• The Tata-ruco: Old friend of the Caperuzo güen, who helps with his advice.
• Cuaco-pollo: Invento de Don Briagoberto Memelas, is the cross of a horse with a chicken.
• Olga Zanna. Beloved poet of Avelino.
• Vagancio Pocalucha, poet friend of Avelino.
• Don Cayman, he had a funeral home to conceal his real business that was buying stolen things. He went to Ruperto.

Results

The Burrón Family shares kinship with The Simpsons, which it precedes by several decades. Both the Mexican comic and the successful American animated series make use of scathing criticism of society and resort to farce, irony and, on occasion, the grotesque, to humorously portray situations that may be familiar to many people in the real life.

The Mexican poet Roberto Díaz Mirón inscribed an "Ode to Borola Tacuche de Burrón (Written in chipocluto verses and dedicated to the Barda Chachis Pachis Palemeque), compiled in the book "Peregrinaciones. Collected poetry (1965-1999)" (Texts of cultural diffusion UNAM, Mexico, 1999. Page 573): Ode to Borola Tacuche de Burrón.

Rodrigo González also makes reference to the comic in his song I'm not crazy and points out its great influence or similarity when writing, with the occurrences of the daily life of the Burrón family, or rather, with the daily life of the big city.

The work of Florencio de los Rosales in the comic has been compared to that of Salvador "Chava" Flores as a composer of songs that reflected the life of the inhabitants of the Federal District in the second half of the 20th century, both with great sociological value.

In 2014 Huevocartoon launched a series of shorts in relation to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in which he recounted how a lower-middle-class Mexican family called Los Reyes managed to go to Brazil without the use of a passport, these characters were reused in the 2018 animated film Martians vs. mexicanos in which he talked about how this family faced a Martian invasion, the creators of the company assumed that it was his representation of the Mexican family based on and inspired by the characters of the comic.

Tributes

Meter commemorative ticket

In 1987, the Radio Educación station recorded 30 radio episodes dedicated to these characters; the production was in charge of Alejandro Ortiz Padilla, and the musicalization and sound effects, by Vicente Morales. They were broadcast after the death of Gabriel Vargas.

The Mexican Postal Service issued a stamp for "La Familia Burrón" in 2004, as part of the series "La caricature in Mexico", illustrated with Borola Tacuche.

In November 2013, the National Preparatory School No. 4 "Vidal Castañeda y Nájera paid homage in its Day of the Dead offering to Gabriel Vargas, and inspired its set design in La Familia Burrón.

The "Metro" issued a commemorative ticket.