(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 30 - Quino, the Argentine designer who invented the famous character of Mafalda, is dead. The publisher reports. Joaquín Salvador Lavado, this is his real name, was 88 years old. News of the death was confirmed on Twitter by his Argentine editor, Daniel Divinsky. "Quino is dead. All the good people in the country and the world will mourn for him," said Divinsky, co-founder of Ediciones La Flor.
According to reports from the local press, Quino had suffered a stroke in recent days, which caused a worsening of his health conditions.
The cartoonist was the son of Andalusian immigrants and was born in Mendoza on July 17, 1932. His most famous character, Mafalda, began to be published in the Argentine magazine Primera Plana in 1964. (ANSA).