Mafalda, the mythical rebellious girl and incisive created by cartoonist Quino Joaquín Salvador Lavado, meets Monday 50 years since its first publication in the world, and his childhood image lingers in the popular imagination of the Argentines.
"I never thought I would Mafalda force after 50 years, I am very touched by this honor," Quino said last month when the Ministry of Education presented the collection "Mafalda kit" aimed at public schools in Argentina.
The artist was born 82 years ago in Argentina Mendoza (west) and winner of the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award, he said then, "very shocked" by the edition of 10 million sets of "Mafalda to assemble" a selection of strips based on four themes.
Quino also illustrated a publication for schools on the Rights of the Child, of which 2,350,000 copies were published in Castilian and in seven languages of native peoples.
Revered by generations of Argentines, Mafalda is one of the fictional characters that are part of the Gallery of Popular Idols of the Pink House (seat of executive power).
The girl irreverent "said things that could not be said in times when words were banned, had questions for society," President Cristina Kirchner said in March in a tribute to Quino.
"Stop the world, I want to get off"
Mafalda was originally created by Quino as a medium for advertising appliances which never saw the light, was forgotten for two years in a folder until it was first published on September 29, 1964 in the weekly Primera Plana. The strip then moved to El Mundo newspaper, which was published until 25 June 1973 His books were translated into 26 languages and only in Argentina more than 20 million copies sold.
However, the reflections of the terrible child who questions the world with ruthless ingenuity recreate on posters, t-shirts, bags, cards, school supplies and all kinds of products that replicate their image.
"Stop the world, I want to get off", is one of the quotes that girl who hates soup, middle-class daughter of a family of Buenos Aires and concerned about world peace and the political reality of his time.
"It is true that the past was better. What happened was that they were worse had not yet been realized," he reflected, and warned that "the evil of the human family is that everyone wants to be the father."
A sculpture of Mafalda, sitting on a park bench a few meters from the house where Quino lived in the traditional San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, is obliged destination for tourists photos embracing the most popular girl in the world Argentina are removed . In other side of the capital, in the neighborhood of College, a square named after him.
The world Mafalda
Among the many tributes that have been made this year in France, Spain and Argentina, Quino was declared last Tuesday Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), while several exhibitions are developed on the most famous character in his strip cómica.Susanita, which dreams of marrying and having many children; Freedom, the most revolutionary; Felipe, the dreamer; Manolito, the merchant and Guille, the brother, complete beings gallery endearing cartoon that included Bureaucracy turtle.
In Buenos Aires are performed currently three samples dedicated to the rebellious child: "According Mafalda" Art in the Usina, a renewed exhibition center in the mayor's office in the neighborhood of La Boca.
Another retrospective of artist creations, "by Mafalda Quino" can be seen simultaneously in the Museum of Humor in Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires, while "Mafalda in your soup" is displayed in a room of the National Library in Palermo. Other activities Quino's home province were organized in Godoy Cruz in Mendoza.
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