09/30/2020 - 13:27
Clarín.com
Culture
The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) dismissed Quino, the creator of Mafalda, who died this Wednesday at the age of 88 with a particular tribute on the networks.
"Quino, creator of the unforgettable Mafalda and one of the most international cartoonists in Spanish, has left us.
His accurate words traveled to both sides of the Atlantic
thanks to his cartoons and his peculiar sense of humor," the account "RAEinforma" posted on Twitter. .
The institution that controls the proper use and unity of the Spanish language accompanied the text with a comic by Mafalda in which the girl, the author's most remembered character, challenges her father -
"So you're never going to finish reading a book! So fat!"
- after I opened a dictionary to look up just one word.
Quino's death was confirmed Wednesday by his editor, Daniel Divinsky.
According to reports, the renowned cartoonist had suffered a
cerebrovascular accident
(CVA)
in recent days
and, although doctors managed to stabilize him, his general condition worsened.
Quino, creator of the unforgettable Mafalda and one of the most international cartoonists in Spanish, has left us.
His accurate words traveled to both sides of the Atlantic thanks to his cartoons and his peculiar sense of humor.
pic.twitter.com/bh7tG1uw4Y
- RAE (@RAEinforma) September 30, 2020
The son of Andalusians, Quino was born on July 17, 1932. At the age of 13 he entered the College of Fine Arts in Mendoza, but soon he felt "tired of drawing amphoras and plasters" and
turned his genius into comics and humor
. although in its first stage, without words.
At the age of 18, he published his first cartoon in Buenos Aires, but it was not until he was 30 that Mafalda was born from the stroke of his pencil,
the girl who hates soup
, conceived on request for an advertisement for electrical appliances in 1963.
With a subtle humor, charged with social criticism, the strips by Mafalda and her friends Susanita, Miguelito, Manolito, Felipe and Libertad, were published from 1964 to 1973.
Holder of awards such as the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities and the Medal of the Order and Letters of France, during his last years Quino published mainly in
Clarín
and only drew Mafalda again for campaigns at the request of organizations such as UNICEF or the Argentine Government.
For some time now, the author, who
had moved to Mendoza from Buenos Aires after being a widower
at the end of 2017, suffered from health problems, although he continued to attend various tributes to his work.
JPE
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