09/30/2020 - 14:03
Clarín.com
Culture
"He left quietly,"
Julieta, Quino's niece, the author of Mafalda
, told
Clarín
.
He lived in Mendoza, facing the Andes mountain range, he lived quietly, as he deserved.
"Quiet and with the family," says Julieta.
In the province where he was born and that decreed Provincial Duel for 24 hours.
Quino
had a house in a private neighborhood about half an hour from the city.
Very cute and very comfortable, friends say.
He had bought it with Alicia, his wife, to go in the summers, in principle, and sometimes move there, but in 2017 she died and he settled in that house alone, near his nephews, who looked after him.
He didn't want interviews - he had never liked them - he resisted, they resisted, all attempts to go make a note with him.
"He lived alone, very careful, he had people who took care of him in a very large house,"
his editor, Kuki Miler
, told
Clarín
.
On the wall of the dining room he had a portrait of his adolescence, a gift from his uncle Joaquín Tejón, the painter who inspired his vocation as a cartoonist.
Her endearing characters
were on a shelf: a miniature collection of
Mafalda
and her friends.
Here the flowers begin to arrive for these children who must be very sad.
Like so many of us #Quino 😢❤️ pic.twitter.com/aeVikEscTs
- Cecilia González (@ceciazul) September 30, 2020
In that house he was.
Last week he
had had a stroke
, they were able to stabilize him but
the environment was worried
.
This Wednesday, his relatives say, it woke up badly and there was nothing to do.
"Consequence of her entrance age - she was 88 years old - and the health issues of the same", says Julieta.
In that neighborhood,
Quino
walked every day, many times with his nephew Diego, who took him, because
Quino
was in a wheelchair: he had circulation problems in his legs and glaucoma that had affected his vision.
He listened to the news, asked the Argentine and international press to read him, followed the political issues of the world, Diego had said in July, when
Quino
turned 88, there were virtual tributes and the family celebrated with dry Italian pasta, red wine and cake puff pastry with dulce de leche.
COVID and the family's own discretion indicate that he will not be veiled and that, like Alicia, he will be cremated.
Today the world mourns him, but he will make us happy forever.
PK
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