It has been 50 years since iconic Argentine cartoon character Mafalda, created by Joaquín Salvador Lavado –better known as Quino-, was first published but her progressive ideals and her reflections on war, poverty and political repression remain as valid as when she was first read by the Argentine public in the weekly publication Primera Plana in 1964.
The comic, which has been translated into 36 languages, take readers into the live and thoughts of the forever-6-year-old girl from Buenos Aires City who speaks out against the established order.
Half a century later, reporters keep asking her creator: “What would Mafalda say of…?,” in reference to a wide range of topics from Argentina’s battle against its holdout creditors to war in the Middle East. “She would say what she always said. Not much has changed, we keep making the same economic and social mistakes,” Quino replied in the latest Buenos Aires Book Fair.
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