Pepito

Pepito, the diminutive of Pepe in Spanish, may refer to:

*César Tovar, a Major League Baseball player, one of whose nicknames was "Pepito"
*Pepito, the largest cat in the world, a minor character in "The Simpsons" TV series.
*Pepito, a character in the comic book "Squee".
*Pepito, the character Rat's violent sock puppet in the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine"
*Pepito, a character in the 1959 animated TV series "Bucky and Pepito".
*Pepito, a character in the webcomic "Something Positive".
*In Colombia, "Pepito Pérez" is analogous to "John Doe"
*In Ecuador and Mexico "Pepito" is analogous to "Little Johnny"
*Pepito evolved from the Picaresque humor pertaining to, characteristic of or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually hummorous or satiric epsisodes that often depict, realistic detail the everyday life of the common people.
*Pepito is Latino Icon whose documented folklore goes all the way back to the Spanish Age of Discovery all the way up to his current international status. Pepito has been the centerpiece of jokes and stories traded between peoples of the New World and people from the Old World. He subsequently has been adopted by Hispanics the world over as the purveyor of humor, uniting varying ethnic backgrounds within the Hispanic culture.
*Pepito is known as the Dennis the Menace/Bart Simpson of Hispanic Culture.
*Pepito is mischievous,clever, overtly naughty and cloaked in a childlike innocence.
*Pepito transgresses boarders from North, South and Central America and Spain.
*Pepito the namesake was trademarked in 18 countries by Scott and Sid Levy after conducting 4,000 videographed interviews with Hsspanics ages 7-70 at the Calle Ocho Festival in Miami,Florida as to the origin, characteristics and jokes they knew of Pepito. No one had ever seen an image of Pepito , yet each had a distinct image of him and felt he originated in their Latin homeland.
*Pepito, Inc. was formed in 1991 to capitalize on the international brand name recognition of Pepito amongst Hispanic all over the world.
*Pepito first visusalization was created and internationally copyrighted by Pepito, Inc in 1991.
* Pepito, Inc. secured international trademark protection for the namesake Pepito in the following countries:USA, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Columbia, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Spain, Argentina, Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Peru, Uraguay, Guatemala, Brazil.
* Pepito, Inc. began bringing Pepito to life in 1991 in Comic books, comic strips,popcorn, t-shirts, , frsibees, posters, animated cartoons, posters,
* Pepito, Inc. formed a joint venture with Streetball Partners, Inc. a division of Host Communicattion which was owned by the publicaly traded company BullRun to create a national soccer tour featuring the Pepito character named Pepito Ball. The Pepito Ball tour visited heavily populated Hispanic cities in Texas, Florida, Illinois, NY and Claifornia. The tour visted 6 cities in 1996 and 10 cities in 1997.
* Pepito Ball was a family soccer festival targeting the Hispanic famlies for national sponsors wanting to reach the Latino family. Sponsors included: Umbro, Procter and GAmbles Pert and Sunny Delight, SW Airlines, All State Insurance, Honey Frosted Flakes, Gatorade and MCI en Espanol.

ee also

*Pepita, roasted seed of pumpkin or other squash