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The death of the Argentine cartoonist was confirmed by his editor, Daniel Divinsky, on Twitter. The cause of death was not announced.
According to the Argentine newspaper Clarín, Quino died after a stroke he suffered last week.
The son of Spaniards, born in 1932, Joaquín Salvador Lavado, known as Quino, designed and published several books on graphic design for a more adult audience, in which a black and corrosive humor prevails over social and political reality.
Quino was the creator of the comics most translated into Spanish. His name will always be linked to the most famous of his characters: Mafalda, contestant, glances, pessimist, always with his metaphors about political and social problems.
Faced with serious health problems – he underwent six surgical operations in just 10 years – he stopped drawing regularly in 2006.
In 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
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Mafalda, ‘the’ character
Despite having been created in 1962, to promote a range of household appliances, the famous cartoon character only appeared for the first time – scowling, with abundant black hair – on September 29, 1964, in the Argentine weekly Primera Flat
The daughter of an Argentine middle-class family, Mafalda questions Humanity and the existence of soup, with her finger raised and almost always worried. An “angry heroine who rejects the world as it is,” Umberto Eco described in 1969.
Quino has been publishing the Mafalda comics, and a character gallery that includes Manelito, Filipe, Susanita, Miguelito, Liberdade, and a turtle named Burocracia, for nine years and in various newspapers, while keeping the job. in graphic humor drawing.
Against the tide of success, the author decided not to publish the weekly strips on June 25, 1973, making exceptions for special requests, as when he designed Mafalda in 1977 for a UNICEF campaign for children’s rights.
In Portugal, Mafalda was published for the first time in 1970 and since then several albums and special editions have been published.
Today, the Spanish newspaper still remembers Quino’s response when asked what Mafalda would be like today. According to El País, Quino replied that this “wise girl” would probably be dead, because she would be one of the disappeared persons of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983).
In 2016, in an interview with the Efe agency, on the occasion of the Buenos Aires Book Fair, Quino affirmed that the current world would be “a disaster and a shame” for the character of Mafalda.
“Looking at the things that I have done all these years, I realize that I always say the same things and that they remain valid. It’s terrible … right?” Quino said, regarding his usual themes: “Death, old age, doctors and other things ”, like social injustices, poverty.
Deeply shy and reserved, Quino acknowledged in the same interview that he would like to be remembered as “someone who makes people think about things that happen.”
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