Argentine cartoonist Quino, creator of Mafalda comic, dies aged 88

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Joaquin Salvador Lavado&comma; the Argentine cartoonist better known as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Quino″ – who created a satirical comic strip about a socially-conscious girl named Mafalda&comma; has died at the age of 88&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Quino’s Mafalda comic strip was first published in 1964 and the humourist maintained a dedicated following throughout his career – even after he moved onto other projects&comma; skewering social conventions through ordinary characters who endured absurdity&comma; exploitation&comma; authoritarianism and their own limitations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Quino died&period; All good people in the country and in the world will mourn him&comma; ” tweeted Daniel Divinsky&comma; the cartoonist’s former editor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Quino&comma; who had suffered health problems in recent years&comma; was remembered affectionately by Argentina’s political class – which was frequently the target of his acerbic humour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cristina Fernández de Kirchner&comma; Argentina’s vice president and former two-term president&comma; uploaded a video to Twitter in which Quino had wished her good luck in governing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms de Kirchner said Quino had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;said things that could not be said” — a reference to censorship during Argentina’s military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s — and that he &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;challenged society with great strength”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Quino was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;creator of the unforgettable Mafalda and one of the most international cartoonists in Spanish”&comma; the Madrid-based Royal Spanish Academy said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;His precise words travelled to both sides of the Atlantic thanks to his cartoons and his peculiar sense of humour&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mafalda&comma; whose six-year-old protagonist ponders the world’s problems to her parents’ bemusement&comma; has sometimes been compared to the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11e1a52bd">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11e1a52bd'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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