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.
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,
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
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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
The other Quino Quino has died, but in reality another Quino has gone, beyond the one almost everyone remembers today as the father of Mafalda. For a child from a lower-class suburban suburb in the 1970s, the only option for accessing reading material that the
