She often leaves her parents at a loss by asking about mature or complex topics. Mafalda: Mafalda, a six-year-old girl, with a great concern for the state of humanity and a proverbial hatred for soup.The exception was Guille, Mafalda's brother, who was introduced during a period when the author did not have other ideas. The other children were created one at a time, and worked by countering specific aspects of Mafalda. However, the group was not created on purpose, but was instead a result of the development of the comic strip. The comic strip is composed of the main character Mafalda, her parents and a group of other children. In 1976, he reproduced Mafalda for the UNICEF illustrating the Convention on the Rights of the Child. After creating the characters of Mafalda's little brother Guille and her new friend Libertad, he definitively ceased publication of the strip on 25 June 1973.Īfter 1973, Quino still drew Mafalda a few times, mostly to promote human rights. Since the cartoons had to be delivered two weeks before publication, Quino was not able to comment on the news to the same extent. Publication resumed six months later, on 2 June 1968, in the Erica weekly Siete Días Ilustrados. The characters of Felipe, Manolito, Susanita and Miguelito were created in the following weeks, and Mafalda's mother was pregnant when the newspaper shut down on 22 December 1967. One week later, on 15 March 1965 Mafalda (the character at the age of five) started appearing daily in Buenos Aires' Mundo, allowing the author to follow current events more closely. A legal dispute arose in March 1965, which led to the end of Mafalda's Primera Plana run on 9 March 1965. Her friend Felipe came on the scene in January 1965. At first it only featured Mafalda and her parents. Its run in that newspaper began on 29 September 1964. Mafalda became a full-fledged cartoon strip on the advice of Quino's friend Julián Delgado, at the time senior editor of the weekly Primera Plana. Ultimately, however, Clarín broke the contract and the campaign was canceled altogether. Mafalda's name was inspired by David Viñas's novel Dar la cara. The character Mafalda and a few other characters were created by Quino in 1962 for a promotional cartoon that was intended to be published in the daily Clarín.

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