Quino

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Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known by his pen name Quino [Spanish:]; 17 July 1932 – 30 September 2020, Argentinian cartoonist; Mar. In several areas of the Americas and Europe, his comic strip Mafalda (which ran from 1964 to 1973) was regarded as a commentary on real-life issues.

Early life

Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejón was born in Mendoza, Argentina, on July 1732, to emigrant Andalusian parents from Fuengirola, Málaga. "Lavado" is his first or paternal surname, and "Tejón" his maternal one, according to Spanish name tradition, while "Tejón" is his maternal name. He spoke with an Andalusian accent until the age of six because of his parents' limited social circle. Throughout his teenage years, he retained a passion for his parents' Spanish heritage and flamenco. He obtained Spanish citizenship in 1990 and was a dual citizen of Spain and Argentina.

From his childhood to his, he was named "Quino" to distinguish him from his uncle, illustrator Joaqun, who inspired him to revisit his hobby of cartooning at an early age. He enrolled and started his studies at Escuela de Bellas Artes de Mendoza in 1945, after the death of his mother. Quino's father died in 1948 when Quino was 16 years old, just a few years later. He began a year later with the intention of becoming a cartoonist. His first illustration, an advertisement for a fabric store, will be out shortly.

His first humor column was published in the weekly magazine Esto Es, which resulted in the publication of other magazines: Leoplán, TV Gua, Demotas, Usted, Panorama, Adán, Atlántida, Che, etc. His cartoons became regulars in Rico Tipo, Telecommunications, and Dr. Merengue in 1954.

Personal life

In 1960, Quino married Alicia Colombo. They never had children. He and his wife were in exile in Milan beginning in 1976, before returning to Argentina seven years later, when the military dictatorship came to an end. He then divided his time between Buenos Aires, Madrid, and Milan. He was an agnostic. He went almost blind in 2017 due to degenerative glaucoma.

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Career

Mundo Quino, his first compilation book, was released in 1963. At the same time, he was designing pages for an advertisement campaign for Mansfield, an electrical household appliance manufacturer, for whom he designed the name Mafalda and basing her name on the same sounds as in the Mansfield brand name. The media campaign never was successful, leading to the publication of Mafalda's first article in Leoplán. It became a regular feature in the weekly newspaper Primera Plana, since the magazine's editor was a Quino friend. It was published in El Mundo from 1965 to 1967; shortly after the first compilation book was released, it began to be published in Italy, Spain (where, due to Franco-era censorship), Portugal, and several other nations. It was also translated to 12 languages.

Mafalda was born as an irreverent and non-conformist six-year-old who feared fascism, militarism, and soup, and adored the Beatles. The character attempted to depict the adult world seen through the eyes of a smart child. Her friends reflected a variety of personalities, including the troubled but studious Felipe, Susanita, the naive Miguelito, the feminist and witty Libertad, and Mafalda's baby brother Guille. The character and the story have been compared to Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic book series.

Quino ended the Mafalda story on June 25, 1973, claiming that he hated repeating himself; in later years, however, the changing political climate in Latin America had also influenced his decision: "If I had kept drawing her, they might have shot me." He moved to Milan, Italy, where he continued to produce humor pages following the 1976 coup d'état in Argentina. Despite the fact that he never returned to Mafalda and her relatives in a comic strip style, he did use the name in an article in 1996: to explain the Human Rights of the Child for UNICEF. In 1965, Argentine producer Daniel Mallo converted 260 Mafalda strips into a television show.

The company Subterráneos de Buenos Aires' Persoon, created a mural of Mafalda in the Perrónes metro station in Buenos Aires in 2008. Quino contributed to the 18th anniversary of Graphic Humor, created for El Mundo, during the Museo del Dibujo y la Ilustración exhibition in Buenos Aires.

Although Mafalda's efforts for civil rights campaigns in Argentina and abroad, Quino dedicated himself to writing other editorial-style comics. Both Argentina and overseas have been published with the comics. Clarn, Argentina's national newspaper, has been publishing cartoons every week since 1982.

The two created a series of cartoons after a visit to Cuban cartoonist Juan Padrón. They produced six Quinoscopio cartoons by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos between 1986 and 1988, none of which were longer than six minutes. In addition, the pair appeared on 104 short Mafalda cartoons in 1994. Quino died in 2006 after being resigned from the university. Although Mafalda concentrated on children and their innocent, realistic view of the world, his later comics featured ordinary people with ordinary feelings. The parody is often mocking real-life situations, such as marriage, electronics, management, and food. This cynical humour is credited as one of Latin America's and much of the world outside Latin America. His cartoons of the 1960s and 1970s were edited and translated into 26 different languages other than the original Rioplatense Spanish. These comics, which have been collected in several volumes by Argentine publisher Ediciones de la Flor, are widely available.

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