5/19/2023 0 Comments Mafalda & friends 1![]() ![]() Other times, when asked what Mafalda’s future might have been, he’d say she’d have been disappeared by Argentina’s military dictatorship. Asked why he stopped, he’d sometimes say he’d run out of ideas. Quino, the pen name of Mafalda’s creator, published the enormously popular strip for nine years, from 1964–73. For a kids’ comic, it had some sharp edges, and it took its hero and her questions seriously even when her friends mocked her for being a downer. ![]() She took the news personally: She swaddled her globe instead of her doll, putting Band-Aids on its war zones and taking its temperature as it lay in her toy crib. She loved the Beatles, hated soup, and listened avidly to radio reports on the Vietnam War. The comic offered plenty of sharp jokes about the world as kids see it, but with a twist: Mafalda was a politically passionate child. Starring a group of little kids, the Argentine strip about the anxieties and misunderstandings of childhood was like Peanuts meets Calvin and Hobbes, then crossed with Doonesbury. Like a lot of South American children, I grew up reading Mafalda comics. ![]()
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