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Gomecillo & Peliculez. Gomecillo & Peliculez were a pair of popular comedians in the first years of the 20^th century. In 1906 they were portrayed as the heroes of the Spanish Celebrity Pulp comic strip “Un Viaje Inferno” (Nuevo Mundo, 1906). Created by “Karikato,” the pseudonym of Méndez Álvarez, Gomecillo & Peliculez are a pair of modern Spaniards who are, quite unwillingly, sent into a Hell which is modeled on Dante’s Inferno but which also incorporates modern elements, like newspaper reporters and contemporary celebrities.

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