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		</div><p>Joaquin Salvador Lavado, the Argentine cartoonist better known as “Quino″ – who created a satirical comic strip about a socially-conscious girl named Mafalda, has died at the age of 88.</p>
<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, skewering social conventions through ordinary characters who endured absurdity, exploitation, authoritarianism and their own limitations.</p>
<p>“Quino died. All good people in the country and in the world will mourn him, ” tweeted Daniel Divinsky, the cartoonist’s former editor.</p>
<p>Quino, who had suffered health problems in recent years, was remembered affectionately by Argentina’s political class – which was frequently the target of his acerbic humour.</p>
<p>Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s vice president and former two-term president, uploaded a video to Twitter in which Quino had wished her good luck in governing.</p>
<p>Ms de Kirchner said Quino had “said things that could not be said” — a reference to censorship during Argentina’s military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s — and that he “challenged society with great strength”.</p>
<p>Quino was “creator of the unforgettable Mafalda and one of the most international cartoonists in Spanish”, the Madrid-based Royal Spanish Academy said.</p>
<p>“His precise words travelled to both sides of the Atlantic thanks to his cartoons and his peculiar sense of humour.”</p>
<p>Mafalda, whose six-year-old protagonist ponders the world’s problems to her parents’ bemusement, has sometimes been compared to the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz.</p>
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