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Argentine cartoonist Quino, pseudonym of Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, died at the age of 88. Quino was born in Mendoza, Argentina, on July 17, 1932 and was the son of Spanish immigrants. He was famous all over the world and his cartoons have been translated into 35 languages. He had had a stroke last week. His Argentine editor Daniel Divinsky broke the news of his death.
Quino died. All the good people in the country and in the world will mourn it.
– Daniel Divinsky (@ DanielDivi1) September 30, 2020
Quino’s fame is mainly linked to the creation of the character of Mafalda (which he conceived in 1963), but also to his silent strips that made fun of the customs and vices of contemporary society.
Quino had been in the Fine Arts school for two years but, he explained, “they taught me to portray beautiful models: plaster casts, amphorae, stuffed ducks, a guitar … But since I was a child I wanted to be a cartoonist and I broke down.” the balls. I quit – it’s something I regret a bit, along with my lack of discipline. In fact, I had to learn things on my own that I would have learned with less effort there, like perspective. If you don’t know it well, it becomes a mess to draw certain images, like a sports field.
– Read also: Fifty years of Mafalda
After the death of his mother and father, it was the 1950s, Quino left Mendoza for Buenos Aires where he began to successfully publish his drawings in some weeklies. In 1963 his first book came out, “Mundo Quino”, a collection of comics with silent humor with a foreword by the writer Miguel Brasco. Brasco introduced Quino to Agens Advertising, who was looking for a designer to create a comic that was “a cross between Blondie and Peanuts” (years later Charles Schulz would call Quino “a giant”), to announce the launch of a line of electrical appliances called Mansfield whose logo contained an M and an A and therefore the name of some characters had to begin with M. This is how Mafalda was born: interim Then he did not campaign, but Quino had some strips left that he used on his own after a few months.
Mafalda is a six-year-old girl, has indifferent parents, hates soup, listens to the Beatles and with her friends (Felipe, Manolito, Susanita and Libertà) she deals with great events: from the Vietnam War to hunger, from racism to feminist question. The strip was published for the first time on September 29, 1964 in the most important Argentine weekly newspaper of the time, “Primera Plana” in Buenos Aires. On March 9, 1965, Quino broke her relationship with “Primera Plana” and Mafalda moved to the newspaper “El Mundo”.
As of June 25, 1973, Quino decided not to draw the Mafalda strips anymore and to dedicate himself to drawings and strips with occasional characters dedicated above all to history and the satire of social and everyday life: “I was tired of repeating that the The world works badly, there are wars and poverty. Nothing has changed since then and this is infinite sadness. “Quino, however, continued to create funny tables. In 1976 (after the coup d’état and the establishment of the dictatorship in Argentina by General Jorge Rafael Videla) he moved to Milan (where he remained until two years ago).
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