A six-year-old girl with a mane of black hair stares at the bowl of soup before her. Steam swirls over a slice of French bread. “Soup is to childhood what communism is to democracy!” she declares.
Mafalda, the iconic Argentinian comic strip character created by the late Joaquín Salvador Lavado, known as Quino, was a fixture of my childhood in Mexico and kind of an early civic education. In ...
(by Mauretta Capuano) (ANSA)- Rome, March 7 - Italy is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first publication in the country of the Mafalda comic strip by Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador ...