![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among their many fans around the world is Argentine cartoonist Miguel Repiso, known as REP.ĭEL BARCO: ""Mafalda" comics are pacifist, progressive, humanist," says REP, reflecting the rebellious spirit of youth in the 1960s and '70s. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As Mafalda, speaking Spanish).ĭEL BARCO: Mafalda's adorable baby brother Guille loves to eat soup when he's not sucking on his pacifier.ĭEL BARCO: The story includes their bemused parents and their friends - Manolito the capitalist, Felipe the dreamer, Susanita the gossip and politically radical Libertad. The crusader with a bob haircut, bangs and a bow raises her fist against social injustice, fascism and soup. Mafalda is a middle-class 6-year-old girl in Buenos Aires - smart, irreverent, feminist and worried about the state of the world. The 88-year-old was known as the father of Mafalda, star of comic strips, books and cartoons. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: Quino is the pen name of cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports on the cartoonist beloved in Latin America and around the world. The cartoonist died in Argentina this past week, and the country observed a national day of mourning for him Thursday. ![]()
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