Tina's Pals
Tina’s Pals is a set of teenager characters featured at the Monica's Gang comic strips. Their stories are aimed for a more teenager group of readers, rather than the kids who would read other Mauricio de Sousa's works. However, Mauricio prefers not to mention drugs, sex, alcoholic drinks, or other similar subjects, which are very popular among teenagers. Instead, the strips are written with themes related to school or university, dating, problems with parents, etc.
Tina and Rolo were originally portrayed as hippies living in Salvador, matching the 1960s decade in which they were created. As the 1980s arrived, Mauricio left the hippie style and started to work with a less particular way of life for them.
Characters
- Tina – A short form to say Cristina, Tina interested in fashion, music and beauty. She likes to dance and hang out with her friends. Among her pals, Tina is the least interested in dating.
- Curly (Rolo) – Curly was originally porttrayed as a calm, easy-going hippie. After the hippie style was dismissed, women started to play the most frequent role of his strips. In most of these strips, he is flirting with any kind of girl who appears in his way, by any means necessary. Another passion of him is music. He plays the electric and acoustic guitar, sometimes alone, sometimes in a band.
- Puff (Pipa) – Tina's best friend, very cheerful, passionate, fat, and zaftig. But, above all those qualities, Puff is very jealous of her boyfriend Steve, which lead to constant arguments between the couple. these arguments are a frequent subject for their strips. However, they always end together as strongly as before.
- Steve (Zecão) – Puff's boyfriend, suffer quite a lot with Puff's jealous of him. Like Curly, he enjoys music.
- Baixinho (literally "Shorty") – Curly's best friend. As the name suggests (Baixinho is a slang for a short person), Baixinho is not a tall guy, at all. Although it is Curly who have to save him from the troubles he get himself involved to, he is frequently giving advice for Curly, specially when he is doing one of his many attempts to date a girl.
- Jaime – Sometimes he appears as Tina's boyfriend, but Tina is often seen hanging around with other boys. He owns a motorcycle.
- Toneco – Tina's little brother. As a pre-teen of some eleven years old, he complains that Tina doesn't allow him to hang out with his friends or girls, for her doesn't think he's old and mature enough.
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