![]() ![]() Readers were drawn to her in a way that, in this region, had never been seen before with a cartoon. In those ten years she had gained only five years of age but a huge following in Latin America. She also liked The Beatles… but I guess everyone did back then.įor ten years Mafalda appeared in newspapers in Argentina until the cartoonist, Quino, stopped the series. She cared about humanity and world peace and, in her own way, she struggled against the problems she saw around her. ![]() Despite her age, she was a child with a big heart and an awareness of the world she lived in. Mafalda first appeared in a comic strip in 1964 when she was six years old. In Mafalda, a young girl who hates soup, Argentines once found an insightful commentator of social events. ![]() ![]() The apparent naivety of youth is easy to dismiss… but often it reveals a view of the world that is unburdened by the twisted and ambiguous ideologies of adulthood. Sometimes it takes the innocence of a child for people to realise their own foolishness. Mafalda cartoon statue, Buenos Aires, Argentina ![]()
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