'Quino', the author of Mafalda, dies at 88 5:11
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(CNN Spanish) -
Quino, Mafalda's father has died and one feels a huge and definitive slam.
Because while the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Lavado was alive, and despite his decision to leave the girl alone, I had the secret hope that Mafalda could knock on my door at any moment.
And share a few smiles and a little Cuban coffee.
Now, neither one thing nor the other.
Quino never had children because he said that it is crap to bring someone into this world without asking before.
And he faced praisers — and their superlative adjectives — like bullets: shunning them.
He knew his Mafalda was immeasurable, but he tried to downplay it.
He said that the girl and her friends were dolls and nothing more than dolls.
Well, dolls like those we need more than people like ... "who you know."
That 55 years after it was created, what Mafalda said is fully up-to-date is not Quino's merit: it is the shame of each one of us.
That we are as we are.
As much as we don't want to look like it.
No matter how much makeup and how much hair growth we use;
and a long trip to Paris and a lot of Sunday mass, we are what we are.
Once Mafalda said: "It's not that there is no goodness, what happens is that it is incognito."
Who knows.
I don't think about that, as Mafalda herself would say.
How fed up, by God!
As everything is, turned upside down and with so much charlatan in command and with so much trade ... what to say that has not already been said.
Quino, Mafalda's father, has died and we are all, from now on, a little more orphans.
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Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known as "Quino", died at the age of 88.
Look in this gallery for some pictures of his career.
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Quino was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1932. The cartoonist said that at the age of three he discovered his vocation at the hands of his uncle, who was named after him, Joaquín.
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Quino in the celebration of the 50 years of Mafalda.
This 2020, the endearing girl turned 56 years old.
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At eighteen, Quino moved to Buenos Aires to find a publisher to publish his cartoons and cartoons.
It would take three years to achieve this, but since 1954 and until then, his humorous drawings have been published continuously in countless newspapers and magazines in Latin America and Europe.
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Mafalda came to television and starred in numerous social campaigns in America and Europe, while her books are reprinted year after year, generating continuous sales successes.
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Since he stopped drawing Mafalda, Quino devoted himself to publishing pages of graphic humor in various newspapers and magazines that were grouped into several books.
However, despite the success of his drawings, those who know him say that Quino was always very introverted.
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