Mafalda

Today I’m going to talk about one of my favorite characters, Mafalda.

Mafalda is a little girl from Argentina created by Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejón, Quino, a cartoonist from the same country, in 1963. At the beginning Mafalda was created to promoted a bran of washing machine, but this never woks and in 1964 Quino decide to published the comic in the weekly magazine Primera Plana.

Mafalda it’s an idealistic person, she believes that a better world could be true but sometimes it’s very pessimistic because of the political situation in the 60’s. She is always thinking about the problems in the world -sort of poverty and famine- and it's always worried about world peace and human race.

She was born in a typical middle-class family and lives with her parents who don’t always understand the thoughts of her daughter. She also has a little brother, Guille, who is very innocent, restless and sometimes even irreverent.

Mafalda is always hanging around with their friends: Felipe, Susanita, Miguelito, Manolito and Libertad. They are all very different, Manolito and Susana are very conservative, Felipe and Miguelito are dreamers and Libertad is even more Utopian and progressive than her friend Mafalda.

I really like Mafalda because I think that she is very critical but funny at the same time. Also, read their comics makes you think a lot, because even the comic strip was made fifty years ago, the problems are still here and that makes Mafalda very contemporary.

If you don’t know her, in this blog you can find amazing comics of this beautiful character: http://toda-mafalda.blogspot.com/