translated from Spanish: At the age of 88 Quino, creator of Mafalda, died

During this day, the death of Argentine cartoonist Salvador “Quino” Lavado, at the age of 88, was confirmed. The artist crossed borders for his comics and the creation of one of the best-known characters in the world: Mafalda, who first appeared in Primera Plana magazine in 1964. Exactly yesterday, it was 56 years of that time. It was his publisher Daniel Divinsky who lamented the news through his social media, and as Clarín stated his death occurred after the hisotiretist suffered a stroke in recent days. Quino died. All the good people in the country and in the world will mourn it,” he wrote on the social network. Quino was born in Mendoza in 1932. The son of Andalusians emigrated to Argentina in 1919, he discovered his vocation at the hands of his uncle Joaquín Tejón, painter and graphic designer, and began his studies of Fine Arts in his hometown at the age of 13. He abandoned them in 1949, determined to devote himself to comics and humor. In 1954 he published his first page and has since published his vignettes, drawings and comics in newspapers and magazines in America and Europe. With the 1976 coup d’state in Argentina, Quino went into exile in Milan. In 1990 he adopted Spanish nationality and has also alternated residence between Madrid and Buenos Aires.Recognized as one of the most outstanding graphic comedians in the international field, Quino achieved fame with the Mafalda strips. This character was born for a frustrated advertising campaign, shortly after he published his first compilation, ‘Mundo Quino’ (1963). In the series ‘Mafalda’, Quino reflected the adult world seen from the eyes of a group of children. Mafalda’s stories have been translated into fifteen languages and published in newspapers and magazines around the world. In 1973, Quino stopped drawing it. During his last years in activity, Quino published mainly in the newspaper ‘Clarín’ and only drew Mafalda again for campaigns at the request of organizations such as UNICEF or the Argentine Government. Illustrious citizen of Mendoza and Buenos Aires and honorary professor of Graphic Humor at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Quino has received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 2014.He has also been recognized as Graphic Humorist of the Year at the Montreal International Show (1982), two Konex Platinum Visual Arts-Graphic Humor (1982 and 1992) and the Special Konex (2012) , the Ibero-American Graphic Humor Quevedos (2000) and the Gold Romics (Rome, 2011).

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