MAFALDA
by Quino
¡Me encanta el sonido de algunas personas cuando se callan! (I love the sound some people make when they shut up).
Mafalda was first published on September 29, 1964, 59 years ago today. Created by Joaquín Salvador Lavado
Tejón, better
known as Quino, the comic follows the travails of a precocious child from a middle-class family in San Telmo
while
offering biting social commentary along the way. Think of Charles Schultz's Peanuts, but far more cutting
and cynical.
Translated into 25 languages — the last being English, allegedly due to its constant questioning of the
Vietnam War —
Mafalda has an Argentine soul. Between its subject matter, which covered cyclical issues like inflation and
political
instability, and its characters' mannerisms and speech patterns, the comic couldn't have come from anywhere
else.
Coded by Karen Cisneros✨