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.
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 newsstands didn't offer was to make a pilgrimage
? Looking for Quino Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, Quino, is the creator of Mafalda, with whom he crossed the borders of Argentina to conquer half the world. This 27-minute documentary is a tribute to him and a look at some of the most intimate moments of his life. "Everyone who knows him warns
Nik and eternal plagiarism If there is one thing that provokes the most anger and rejection among artists and the public, it is plagiarism, second only to fantasising and lying. The rest of the minor sins are usually forgivable, as they are blamed on the artistic side to attract attention and are assumed
In a statement with his name and ID number dated 19 July, which was published on his official website and later disseminated on his social networks(1)(2), the 86-year-old cartoonist made it clear that the images of his popular character "Mafalda" with the blue scarf of the movements against legal abortion in Argentina are
