Abstract
Rompetechos is one of the most popular Spanish comics. Its author, Francisco Ibáñez, is also the inventor of Mortadelo y Filemón. This article analyzes 17 short character stories to discover the weight and structure of the linguistic gags in his funniness. The study concludes that Ibáñez uses puns to evidence Rompetechos’ myopia and accentuate his humour resulting funny entanglements. Puns are built basically upon the substitution of letters (paranomasias) and less frequently the addition (empotres) and subtraction (descartes). The dialogue that the pun needs to be spontaneous and truthful is got by Ibáñez through a crazy reading of successive signs.
Highlights
Para la realización de este trabajo he utilizado como fuente primaria un monográ fico de Rompetechos escogido al azar (Combinado de risas, Ediciones B, colección Magos del Humor, 1992)
2) Los juegos de palabras de la serie nacen del contraste de significados entre dos significantes muy próximos, que varían solo en unos pocos fonemas
Summary
Referencia normalizada CABALLERO WANGÜEMERT, Félix (2012): “Paranomasias y otros juegos de palabras en la comici dad de Rompetechos”. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense. 3. Francisco Ibáñez y sus increíbles hijos.
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