TO Mafalda He didn’t like soup and questioned everything. This 6-year-old bourgeois girl, created by comedian Quino, has become the little philosopher of the 20th century, entertaining with his reflections on every daily situation he went through. From family and friends, to Argentine politics and the world.
The comic appeared for the first time in the magazine Primera Plana on 29 September 1964. It then appeared in the newspaper El Mundo and from there it acquired international relevance (It has been translated into more than 30 languages).
Like the development of Cartooncharacters with a well-defined profile are added: his friends Felipe (altruist and reader of The Lone Ranger), Manolito (the calculating grocer), Libertad (small and intellectual), Susanita (with housewife aspirations), Miguelito (the dreamer) and the his little brother Guille.
In 1973 Quino stopped producing his weekly strip. But for several years his work has been republished in the form of books and magazines for several generations. Today he is also available in digital version for ebook and several websites strive to reproduce the best of the character in PDF.
The 10 best phrases of Mafalda
The sharpness of Mafalda’s sentences He set the bar very high for Argentine humor. His favorite topics were international power relations, wars and social injustice. And one of the highlights was his family, and through it the aspirations of the middle class.
Mafalda. Each character who accompanied her had a very defined profile. Photo: Clarin.To illustrate the profile of their reflections, they go 10 sentences what we get from the sites Comics.net AND Millennium
1) On wealth. “No one can amass a fortune without making others miserable.”
2) Intolerance. “The problem with closed minds is that they always have their mouths open.”
3) About the media. Mafalda sitting in front of the unplugged television.
Dad: But… what are you doing there with the TV off?
Mafalda: Think. Sometimes I wanted to give myself the pleasure of being able to think while I sit and watch it.
4) The family. “We send a parent to the office every day… to get them back!”
5) Feminism: Mafalda thinks of a woman who sews, another who washes and another who hangs out the clothes: “Of course… the bad thing is that women, instead of having a role, have played a role in the history of humanity” .
The first Mafalda undresses. It began to be published in 1964, in the magazine Primera Plana. Photo: Clarin.6) Culture. Dialogue between Susanita and Mafalda.
Susanita: When I grow up I want to have lots of clothes!
Mafalda: And I have a lot of culture!
Susanita: Do they take you to prison if you go out on the streets without culture?
Mafalda: NO.
Susanita: Try going out without a dress!
Mafalda: It’s very sad to have to hit someone who is right.
Quino, creator of the strip, next to the Mafalda sculpture in the city of Buenos Aires. He died in 2020, aged 88. Photo: AFP/Alejandro Pagni.7) Repression. Mafalda passes Miguelito in front of a policeman and, pointing to the truncheon, says to her friend: See? This is the stick to undermine ideologies!
8) Economy. “Since it’s so difficult to change structures… Can’t we at least give them some paint? Or not even that?
9) Censorship. Mafalda passes an incomplete painting (Basta de censu) and says: “Either the painting is finished, or I can’t finish it because it’s in the public domain.”
10) Humanity. “Since loving each other doesn’t work… why don’t we try to love each other?”
Source: Clarin
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