Magdalena Suarez Frimkess is a Venezuelan artist who works in ceramics and has been based in Venice Beach, CA since the late 1960s. She is best known for her hand-painted and glazed ceramics that feature content varying from mythological motifs to pop characters and advertisements, drawn from both history and memory. While Suarez Frimkess returns to Minnie Mouse, Olive Oyl, Betty Boop, and the Tasmanian Devil often enough to consider them her avatars, no character has appeared more often in her ceramics than Condorito, an anthropomorphic, sandals-wearing condor who is the eponymous star of Chile’s popular daily comic strip. Condorito was created by René Ríos, better known as Pepo, and made its debut in 1949 — the same year Suarez Frimkess moved from Caracas to Santiago.