Quino is the pseudonym of the Argentinean cartoonist of Spanish descent Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known internationally for the characters in his most popular series, Mafalda. Quino was born on 17 July 1932 in the Andean city of Mendoza (Argentina). Quino lost his parents very early in life. His mother died when the cartoonist was thirteen years old and two years later his father died, leaving him at the age of fifteen in charge of his siblings. At thirteen, he entered the School of Fine Arts, where he spent only two years. At the age of 18, he left for Buenos Aires, where all the weekly newspapers and major humorous publications were located, to try his luck in the not easy profession of humour. Shortly afterwards, he would create the characters that, by a stroke of luck, would bring him worldwide fame. Quino died in Mendoza on 30 September 2020 at the age of 88 from a stroke.
Netflix has announced that director Juan José Campanella, winner of an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010 for The Secret in Their Eyes, is working on the audiovisual adaptation of the iconic comic strip Mafalda, by the acclaimed Argentinean master of graphic humour, Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, Quino. Campanella will be
Quinografía is a documentary by Curandero Producciones (Argentina) and El Gatoverde Producciones (Spain) in 2023 that does not yet have a theatrical release date, but is expected before the end of the year. This 70-minute international co-production is directed by Mariano Dosono and Federico Cardone, with script by Mariana Guzzante and the support
Argentinian docuseries of 4 chapters of 30 minutes in Spanish with subtitles in French and English. The film features Alberto Montt, Ricardo Siri,"Liniers", Maitena and others. "The film, which studies the mythical character of Quino, competed this week at the Canneseries, the international festival of series in the south of France, where its
These biographies are written using only references taken from interviews and information published by the authors themselves on their official pages or channels. The links consulted for their elaboration are added at the bottom. If you find any errors, you can report them here. Next month it will be two years since Quino's disappearance, so I've
You blink and he's gone for a month, you sneeze and twelve vanish. A year ago Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known worldwide as Quino, passed away. If his work already resides in the memory of several generations of people all over the world, now it will also do so in a physical form
