Mafalda, the character of Quino who starred in a graphic column in the Argentine press for 11 years (1964 - 1973) ended up gaining so much relevance that several compilation books were published with all the stories.
After the death of Quino, this Wednesday, it is inevitable to talk about one of his most iconic characters and a fairly widespread anecdote in Mexico.
The false death of Mafalda.
As we already told you on this occasion, the fury for Mafalda and the validity of many of her reflections today have created a true legion of fans and imitators around the character who take advantage of her popularity to spread content as if it had come out of pencils. Cinchona.
One of these examples, perhaps the most macabre, is the apocryphal cartoon about the end of Mafalda and the widespread idea in Mexico that at the end of the story, the girl is killed by a truck of soup, the food she hates the most.
This unexpected end, only extended and known to the Mexican public, is false as Quino himself explained at the Monterrey Book Fair in 2008.
The apocryphal cartoon about the death of Mafalda
The soup truck story was completely false and he never drew such an ending.
"That legend belongs only to you Mexicans, who keep inventing things that do not exist," reminds EL PAÍS the Mexican cartoonist Trino who was a witness to the conversation.
"That strip was not made by him, he never killed Mafalda," says Trino.
"Quino had a sensational humor, because he also said all that very seriously. But he had this parsimony when speaking, with his acid side of seeing things, and you notice the intelligence he had," says the monero.
The end of Mafalda was much less tragic
The last time Mafalda was published was on June 25, 1973. "I had the feeling that I was beginning to repeat myself and it seemed to me that it was a bit dishonest. I didn't want my comic to be one of those that are forty-one years old. He reads them out of habit but he already knows how they end ", said the author in an interview with Televisión Española in 1977." When you cover the last little box of a comic strip and you already know what the end will be, it is because things are not working. "
Despite some occasional collaborations, Quino never drew Mafalda's stories again.
* With information from Camila Osorio
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