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(CNN Spanish) – Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known as Quino, died at the age of 88. The news was disclosed by Daniel Divinsky, who was its editor and founding partner of Ediciones de la Flor, the company that publishes “Mafalda.”
Quino turned 88 on July 17 and this Tuesday, September 29, Mafalda’s 56th birthday was celebrated.
This comic is considered by specialists as the most international in the Spanish language.
“Quino died. All the good people in the country and in the world will mourn him, ”Divinsky wrote on his Twitter account.
Quino died. All the good people in the country and in the world will mourn it.
– Daniel Divinsky (@ DanielDivi1) September 30, 2020
Quino was born in Mendoza, Argentina. The cartoonist said that at the age of three he discovered his vocation at the hands of his uncle, who was named after him, Joaquín.
At eighteen, Quino moved to Buenos Aires to find a publisher to publish his cartoons and cartoons. It would take three years to achieve this, but since 1954 and until then, his humorous drawings have been published continuously in countless newspapers and magazines in Latin America and Europe.
In 1964, Quino first published Mafalda’s comic strip in Primera Plana magazine. Mafalda is a middle-class girl who cares about what happens in the world from her childhood innocence, representing the concerns of Latin American society.
Quino once confessed that his favorite character is Libertad, who appeared at the end of the comic. Freedom offered many more possibilities.
The Argentine cartoonist, who in 2009 announced his retirement from the strips, assured that although the stories continue to come to his mind, the “physical limitations”, such as the operations he underwent in the eye, did not allow him to continue working with what you like the most.
“For the only thing that age is not crap for you is because you understand better the music you have listened to all your life (…) You are discovering things that you did not discover before,” he told El Clarín.
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Quino stopped making the Mafalda cartoon in 1973, although he recovered the character to illustrate campaigns in favor of children’s rights, according to an EFE report.
During his long career, Quino has published several books and received numerous awards, such as the Romics de Oro, the highest award awarded by the Rome Comic and Animation Festival, in its 2011 edition, and the II Quevedos Ibero-American Prize for Graphic Humor. In 2014 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Quino was the son of Spanish immigrants, and his family gave him that nickname to differentiate him from his uncle Joaquín Tejón, from whom he learned a taste for drawing and painting from the age of 3, according to the artist’s official site.
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