The Cavern Clan
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The Cavern Clan is a set of fictional characters created by Mauricio de Sousa
and featured at the Monica's Gang
comic strips. The Cavern Clan lives in the Stone Age
, but their strips always features dinosaur
s, which is anachronistic, as the dinosaurs were extinguished 65 million years ago. Most of the stories feature Piteco hunting dinosaurs, running away from Tooga, or even he and his friends fighting against other village’s people. Ironically, the characters would always refer to things which did not exist at that time yet, for example, if a character needs to walk a long distance, he or she would say “Too bad they didn’t invent the car yet, ‘cause otherwise I would go faster”.
Mauricio de Sousa
Mauricio de Sousa is a Brazilian cartoonist who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books....
and featured at the Monica's Gang
Monica's Gang
Monica's Gang is a popular Brazilian comic book series. The series was created by Mauricio de Sousa, who signs his work as "Mauricio". Plots are centered on the adventures of a group of seven-year-old friends in the fictional neighborhood of "Limoeiro" in São Paulo...
comic strips. The Cavern Clan lives in the Stone Age
Stone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
, but their strips always features dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s, which is anachronistic, as the dinosaurs were extinguished 65 million years ago. Most of the stories feature Piteco hunting dinosaurs, running away from Tooga, or even he and his friends fighting against other village’s people. Ironically, the characters would always refer to things which did not exist at that time yet, for example, if a character needs to walk a long distance, he or she would say “Too bad they didn’t invent the car yet, ‘cause otherwise I would go faster”.
Characters
- Pitheco (Piteco) – His whole name is Pithecanthropus Erectus da Silva, and he lives at the fictional Lem Village. He is always hunting dinosaurDinosaurDinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s and fishing, many times without results. He has many enemies, but he fears primarily Tooga, who wants to marry him against his will. In most of the early stories, Piteco found Horácio (another character, a small philosophical T-rex) in his egg, but he troubled Lem and was forced to leave. - Hank (Bolota) – Pitheco's best friend. He is always the one to give advice to Pitheco, when he finds himself in a difficult situation.
- Tooga (Thuga) – Tooga is completely in love with Pitheco. Her biggest dream is to marry him. However, Pitheco disapproves her idea. Tooga sometimes uses brute force to marry him (like capturing him like he was an animal and taking him to the "church"), but Pitheco always manages to escape.
- Zoom & Boom (Zum e Bum) – Twin thieves. They are homeless, but spend several nights at the local police prison. They love to steal the most valuable objects, but always end up with bare hands, in prison.