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Joaquín Lavado, known as Quino, is Mafalda’s father. Mafalda is a witty girl who, since her creation, has always expressed a peculiar view of the world and an ongoing concern for humankind.

Defined by Italian writer Umberto Eco as an “irate heroine who rejects the world as it is”, Mafalda appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines between 1964 and 1973.

Currently translated into over 15 languages, Mafalda travels around the world and can be read in English, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Taiwanese, Catalan, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, German and French. Furthermore, the fact that Mafalda became an idol in Spain prompted its publication as a cartoon and a movie.

With a diametrically opposed theme, "El Eternauta" also captivated the whole world to the extent that it has come to be regarded as one of the  20thcentury’s most influencing science fiction comic strips.

The cartoon created by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, who was kidnapped during the last dictatorship and is still reported missing, has been illustrated by Francisco Solano López, and it tells us the story of an alien invasion (political metaphor used in those years) that was followed by a deadly snowfall over Buenos Aires. It was first published in Buenos Aires in 1957, and it later on appeared in European magazines such as Linus, El Globo, Alter Alter, Il Mago, Charlie Mensuel and Metal Hurlant.

Maitena´s comic strips, now on TV

The Argentine cartoonist has been publishing her cartoons in the Spanish newspaper El País for a long time, and her ironic view of the feminine world will now be seen on European TV. The producer Cuatro Cabezas, (Caiga quien caiga) is preparing a TV series on her cartoons

Ricardo Siri, best known as Liniers, has quickly become an international success. The collection of his comic strip "Macanudo" can be found in Latin America and in Spain, where the cartoonist published a selection of his travel log entitled "Conejo de viaje", before having it published in Argentina. Whenever a cartoonist´s characters appear on the street walls, he can therefore be regarded as a cult author.

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Gardel in Comic Strips

Cartoonist José Muñoz and script writer Carlos Sampayo, both Argentine artists living in Europe, have published "La voix de l Argentine" (The voice of Argentina), the first volume of Carlos Gardel’s biography, published by the French publishing house Futuropolis. The volume will be soon available in Spain. “This biography is an excuse to talk about Argentina, and Argentina is an excuse to talk abo

An Argentine cartoonist in Marvel and DC

Manuel Gutierrez is an illustrator specialized in comics, who worked for the American collossus Marvel and DC, where he illustrated superheroes such as Daredevil, The Punisher, Nightwin and a yet unpublished Batman

El Eternauta in graffiti

Nas ruas da cidade de Buenos Aires, de Rosario e inclusive em um mural do Metrô B “O Eternauta” marca presença como símbolo de resistência

Through the streets of Madrid

How did Liniers’ characters, Enriqueta and her bear Madariaga make it to a wall in Madrid? In the same way as this 34 year-old cartoonist grew professionally until finally becoming amost a celebrity and being entrusted to draw Andrés Calamaro’s latest CD cover