Monica's Gang

Monica's Gang
Genre	Comedy Family Fantasy
Creator	Mauricio de Sousa
Publisher	Abril Globo Panini Comics
Country	Brazil
Original run	1960 - present
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Monica’s Gang (alternatively known as Monica and Friends) is a Brazilian comic books franchise originally created by Mauricio de Sousa in 1960.

Spanning several printed works and even animated features, the series follows the day-to-day life or fantastical adventures of four children with iconic personalities: Monica, the feisty main protagonist, Jimmy Five, a young boy with a notable speech impediment, Smudge, a messy kid who refuses to bathe, and Maggy, a girl with a tremendous appetite.

Minha Dona/My Owner (Magali Globo No. 001)

The first issue of Magali's comics tells a story of how she adopted a scrawny ally cat (who would be later be named Mingau or Vanilla in English).

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Comic Strip (Magali Globo No. 001)

Magali quickly hides a watermelon from Cebolinha by swallowing it whole.

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Appetizing Pumpkin/Abóbora Apetitosa (Magali Globo No. 021)

Maggy eats Cinderella’s pumpkin carriage parked outside her house.

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Rental Belly/Barriga de Aluguel (Magali Globo No. 056)

Maggy and Junior work out a deal for Maggy to eat all of Junior’s food from under his table so he doesn’t have to eat and she can have as much food as she wants, not heading her mother’s warning that eating too much will make her gain weight.

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Magali Globo No. 083

Magali has a full stomach after eating all the fish her father has been fishing

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Chubby, Me?/Gorducho eu? (Magali Globo No. 106)

Toddy worries that he’s becoming chubby from hanging around Maggy so much and all the food she’s often near.

My Cute Love/Meu Fofo Amor (Magali Globo No. 394)

An overweight alchemist named Mefista scientifically switches her metabolism with Maggy’s, causing Maggy to become overweight while Mefista becomes slim. However, when her fiancée Quimério visits her for a date, he is disappointed to see her in this new figure, as he thought she was all the more beautiful when she was fat. Heartbroken, Mefista reverses this experiment, so she and Maggy revert to their old selves and her relationship with Quimério is healthy once more.

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The Hungry Peasant/A Camponesa Comilona (Magali Panini-2015 No. 004)

In medieval times, Maggy the peasant girl is cursed by an angry witch since she ate all the witch’s food. The curse causes Maggy to gain weight from eating the food at a fancy ball.

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