Quino explained in his own words

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Quino touches the Mafalda sculpture installed in a park in Oviedo.

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The creator of Mafalda was a man of little talk.

He preferred to express himself through drawing, but in his interviews he left intense reflections on art, politics and life.

Mafalda's sentences resonate on all social networks as a tribute to its creator, who died on September 30, 2020 at 88 years of age in Mendoza, Argentina.

In life,

, Quino, received multiple awards and tributes for his graphic work, but it was rare that someone who approached his work was not impressed by the sharpness of his texts and the humanity of his characters, they were secondary to Mafalda or a maid who appeared in a single vignette.

, Quino was a man of few words, who always said that he preferred to express himself through his drawing.

But that way of being did not prevent that in each appearance before the press that had

.

His art

"I was never a good cartoonist

, so when I was commissioned with political jokes I made more anonymous characters. I think that has made many of my jokes do not age, and that is why now I read some that I drew 30 years ago and I am scared of today I drew Mafalda for 10 years, and it is perhaps the most Argentine thing I have ever done, and the most popular. It's normal, because normally in my other works I never repeat characters, and thus the public cannot identify or become fond of ".

(THE WORLD, 2013)

The end of Mafalda

"I was tired of always doing the same thing. The decision even went through conjugal areas, because

, invite people to dinner or what do I know, because I was until 10 at night with The strips. Besides, it was very difficult for me not to repeat and I realized that when I couldn't think of anything, I immediately reached out to Manolito or Susanita, who were the easiest. There was also a guy who was a master of my generation's cartoonists, Oski, and he told us never to get involved with a fixed character. And if we did get involved, we would grab a strip and cover the last little square with our hand.

. a good time and I did not imagine that twenty-some years later it would continue to be valid. "

(Official website of Quino)

The adaptations of his work

"I've let them borrow my characters, although I'm not as generous as [Roberto] Fontanarrosa who lets them do plays and things with their characters and doesn't care. I do care. The animation [of the cartoon series de Mafalda] was good, but the end result was not. I did not get involved in anything

. They were short, all stuck like that. Horrible. Even in Madrid something very happened to me. funny. I was in a movie theater queuing to see a movie and some Spanish girls said: "Look, they're going to give the Mafalda, that's good." I told them not to go see it because it was a lead. "And you? What do you know? "They told me. They didn't believe I was who I was. I was really very bad."

(Supplement

de

, 2000).

origins

"I have a root problem, because I never felt very Latin American. Because

. When I went to school I would talk

, I would say" this guy "and they would answer me" Who are you talking about?

Is she your uncle? "" No.

no, a guy I saw "." But what guy? "Then I returned to Fuengirola with the memory of a fishing village and I found skyscrapers and everything written in Swedish and Dutch and it was a pretty big disappointment".

(

,

, 1977).

GOD

"This thing of good and evil has impressed me since I was a child, that

. The bad are more, also God is very bad, and also very good."

(Documentary

, 2018).

The future

Seeing the things that I did in all these years I realize that

... Right? "(Agencia

, 2016).

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