Gaturro statue

Gaturro is an argentinian bootleg of Garfield made in 1993 by the artist (wich was accused of plagiarism, stealing jokes and even entire drawings) Nik, Also known as chorro hdp.

His best creation, Gaturro, is the one he most loves so he gave gaturro a lot of jokes he stole and also he decided to include politic topics and jokes (This character and his books were made for childrens).

in 2013, a gaturro statue was inaugurated on the cartoon ride (paseo de la historieta), an urban monument wich included several statues from the mlst influential national cartoon characters. As people hated Nik due to his actions and his creation, they started to vandalize the Gaturro statue. This movent started to take strength in 2018~2021, wich provoked the accelerated decay of the character statue. In 2022, the original statue was removed due to his state of decay.

His creator, Nik blamed on his social media to politics and haters as he believes there's a conspiracy for destroy his Gaturro statue and censor him. Then he announced shortly after the removal of the first Gaturro statue a renovated version of the statue would be placed where the original was. Nik said this one has protection against vandalism, such as an strong material, anti-graffiti paint and an internal cam.

Then, in July 14 of 2023 the new Gaturro statue finally arrived and everyone quickly found out that all the "protection against vandalism" was just 4 public barriers made of wood. The second statue just LASTED 2 DAYS as the next day it was removed because of extreme vandalism and people celebrated his brutal destruction clapping at the statue while being removed by the city authorities. This became viral and a meme.

All what remains in the site where the Gaturro statue was located is a Tomb, flowers and drawings from people. Most of these elements are jokes and mockery of the character and his creator.

RIP Gaturro Statue 14/7/2023 ~ 15/7/2023.