Mafalda

Mafalda is a comic figure of the Argentine cartoonist Quino.

Creation and publication

In 1963, Quino from its publisher commissioned to invent a cartoon character, which is a mixture of the Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz and Blondie the American cartoonist Chic Young. Quino then created the little girl Mafalda. Mafalda first appeared on 29 September 1964 as a comic strip in the weekly Primera Plana. From this point, the stories of Mafalda were published regularly from March 9, 1965 in the Argentine daily newspaper El Mundo. When El Mundo was posted on December 22, 1967, changed Mafalda 1968 weekly Siete Dias. 1973 Mafalda sequences were hired. Later the stories were published again in comic books.

1974, a year after the end of the magazine consequences of Mafalda and after 11 published volumes (the original series begins with band 0, so that band 10 is the eleventh ) appeared the last Mafalda band. In 1977, Quino recorded again Mafalda and her friends: At the request of UNICEF, an issue arose for the action rights of children. In 1978 Quino this a prize at the International Festival humor in Bordighera / Italy. 1988 for the Mafalda series of Max and Moritz Prize of the International Comic Salon Erlangen, he was awarded as the best foreign comic strip. 2009 was inaugurated in the presence of Quino before his former house in Buenos Aires, a life-size statue of Mafalda, the artist Pablo Irrgang had created on behalf of the City of Buenos Aires. At the same time a plaque with the inscription " Aquí Vivio Mafalda " ( lived here Mafalda ) was attached to the house.

Mafalda has been translated into at least 26 languages, including Spanish into Spanish, the Spanish in the Argentine vocabulary as well as pronunciation and spelling a little different. Furthermore, including Chinese, Finnish, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Catalan, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese and the Brazilian Portuguese, the Taiwanese, and Swedish into German.

Content

Mafalda is a girl from the middle class of Argentina, which is very precocious ( in the first volume is not yet enrolled in school, so about 5 years old, in the last 8 years ). It advocates for world peace, justice, democracy and the women's movement and is ideologically always a bit smarter than their parents. Mafalda loves the Beatles and hates soup. Her little brother Guille [ gi'ʃe̞ ] ( abbreviation of Guillermo = Wilhelm ) is the only one who embodies the passage of time by he grows and learns to walk and talk. Judging from the large urban surroundings after, Mafalda lives in Buenos Aires and attended a public school (recognizable by the typical school smock ). At first she makes friends with Felipe, Manolito and Susanita. With Felipe, who plays chess, Mafalda has the most common interests, but he later developed into a self- doubting pessimist. The somewhat understated Manolito must permanently in the grocery store of his father ( an immigrant from Spain) to help out and is therefore in school only in arithmetic well. His dream is to one day be the owner of a large retail chain. The garrulous Susanita turn sees her life happiness in rich to marry and become a mother; it embodies a narrow-minded immigrant family, the prejudice against poverty and against " Black " without reflection ( Negros, as are referred to in Argentina members of the underclass ) maintains. Later Miguelito and Libertad will be added, but these are only shown as figures and less than personalities.