The life of Quino, creator of Mafalda, in pictures

1Quino signs copies of the book 'Cuentecillos y otros alteraciones', written by Jorge Timossi and illustrated by him, in a Madrid store on March 24, 1997. SANTI BURGOS

2Joaquín Lavado 'Quino' greets the children who represent his characters from Mafalda, at the University of Alcalá de Henares, where he was invested as "Professor of Humor" in October 2000. Morgana Vargas Llosa

3The Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado 'Quino', in Lleida, in January 1998. Herminia Sirvent

4Quino, on October 15, 2001, the day on which he received the second Quevedos Prize for Graphic Humor, in the auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares.

Miguel Gener

5Quino, at the presentation of his book 'Potentes, arrogant and impotent' in Madrid, on February 12, 1990. Marisa Flórez

6The cartoonist Quino, with a statue of Mafalda in Oviedo in 2014, when he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.

Paco Paredes

7The cartoonist, during a tribute within the fourth Latin American Film Festival, in Lleida, on January 17, 1998. EFE

8 The creator of Mafalda poses with her and Susanita, Manolito, Carlitos and Miguelito, reproduced for an exhibition in which some of his cartoons were shown, in Madrid on April 9, 1992. Daniel Beltrá EFE

9The cartoonist Quino, in the seventies.

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10The cartoonist, during an interview in Madrid in November 1999. Ricardo Gutierrez

11The Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, 'Quino', upon his arrival at a press conference in Buenos Aires (Argentina), in May 2014. David Fernández EFE