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Quino, an Argentine cartoonist known for creating the Mafalda character comics, has died at 88, editor Daniel Divinsky confirmed on Twitter.
“Quino died. All the good people of the country and the world will mourn him,” he wrote. The cause of death was not officially revealed. According to the Argentine press, the artist suffered a stroke in recent days.
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Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, also known as Quino, during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May 2014 – Photo: Eduardo Di Baia / AP / Arquivo
Joaquín Salvador Lavado was the creator of the comics most translated into Spanish. He was born in 1932, in Mendoza, Argentina, where he returned to live in 2017, after the death of his wife, Alicia Colombo.
His name is always associated with that of his most famous character, who turned 56 on Monday (29). The six-year-old interrogator, a Beatles fan, became famous for her concern with combating social problems and soup at dinner.
Comic icon, Mafalda turns 55
Quino created Mafalda in his first job as an advertising designer, in 1962. The girl would be the character of an advertising piece, which was rejected by the newspapers of the time.
The author resumed the character in 1964. The first comic strip was published on September 29 of that year. From then on, the stories, now with no publicity objective, ended up appearing in newspapers around the world. Later, Mafalda’s books were translated into more than 30 languages.
Mafalda, by Quino occupies a prominent place in the exhibition of the Espaço Cultural Renato Russo – Photo: Reproduction / Quino
The character also became the protagonist of a film, produced in Argentina and released in 1982.
Besides the girl, the comics also made famous people like Manolito, Susanita, Guille, Filipe and Libertad.
In 1973, after nearly 2,000 comic strips, Quino decided that he would stop drawing Mafalda.
The cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, also known as Quino, poses next to a sculpture of his character Mafalda, in Oviedo, Spain. Photo from October 2014 – Photo: Miguel Riopa / AFP / Archive
In an interview in 2014, when asked if the character would keep his critical eye on the world so many years later, Quino said yes. “And there are even more arguments. If you watch the newspapers, you don’t even have to ask why.”
After resigning from his role, Quino continued to create stories with a political tone, often about oppression and social inequality, for newspapers in various countries.
