Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino, is an Argentine cartoonist born on July 17, 1932 in Mendoza. His comic strip Mafalda (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is very popular in Latin America and many parts of Europe. A cartoonist at work. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Park of General San Martín in Mendoza. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Excerpt from strip 1822: Were screwed, guys! It seems that if one doesnt hurry up to change the world, it is the world who changes you! Mafalda is a comic strip and also the name of the fictional little girl heroine of a comic, written and drawn by... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...

Quino's universe

Quino's strips and cartoons feature no talking animals or animated toys: his main characters are ordinary people with ordinary feelings. If the situations are often surreal or allegorical (like the operating room with Errare humanum est written over the door, or the riot police throwing valium into protesters' open mouths), the personalities and reactions are very real and familiar — only magnified to caricatural proportions. Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Green Razor Scooter This article is about things that people play with. ... This page includes English translations of several Latin phrases and abbreviations such as . ... Diazepam, brand names: Valium, Seduxen, in Europe Apozepam, is a 1,4-benzodiazepine derivative, which possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. ... Caricature of Alan Greenspan by Jan Op De Beeck. ...

Quino's self portrait

Thus, although the conception of his Mafalda strip superficially resembles those of other children-centered strips, such as Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts — including the kids' incongruous concern for adult topics like world politics — Quino's characters can still be seen by readers as real children, with real (if caricatured) children's minds and real parents, rather than the stylized "adults in children's bodies" of Schulz's world. In that respect, Mafalda is closer to Bill Watterson's Calvin (with the exception that, instead of Calvin's easy and frequent escapism into his fantasy world, Mafalda and friends prefer to satirize an unescapable reality). Image File history File links Quinos self portrait. ... Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. ... Peanuts book cover Peanuts was a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. ... William B. Bill Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. ... Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. ...

Quino's humor is characteristically bitter or even cynical, often dwelling on the misery and absurdity of human existence — independently of one's station in life — in face of bureaucracy, misused authority and wasteful, useless institutions, confining dogmas, and the narrow-mindedness of fellow humans. This is not to say that Quino's cartoons are intently philosophical, but they will resort to philosophy if it works as a vehicle for them to carry a message of social relevance, which readers reportedly (and not rarely) find to be eye-opening. Thus, he portrays misery without euphemisms, and each cartoon is just a snapshot of that misery. Reduction to absurd is not as rare as a comedic device, but more often than not, the joke derives from gleaning profound irony from the situation being discussed. His cartoons seem to say, very much in accord with the way Latin Americans use humor to relieve the pressure of political or economical oppression, let's have a laugh at life, as humor is the best way to face this harsh reality. Bureaucracy is a sociological concept of government and its institutions as an organizational structure characterized by regularized procedure, division of responsibility, hierarchy, and impersonal relationships. ...

Quino's focus on how grim life is betrays a inner conviction that it ought to be good, and a deep sympathy for life's mostly innocent victims — employees, children, housewives, pensioners, obscure artists, unrecognized heroes — in spite of their very human failings and limitations. Even in his caricatures of oppressive bosses and unfeeling bureaucrats one can glance some sympathy: for they too are, after all, only victims of their own stupidity. Quino's world view is easy to explain in light of Argentina's vicissitudes over the last forty years; and his mixture of pessimism and humanism is one of the reasons for his immense popularity in Latin America.

Prizes and honors

The kind of ideas that he works with are one of the most difficult, and I am amazed at their variety and depth. Also, he knows how to draw, and to draw in a funny way. I think that he is a giant. — Charles M. Schulz

Quino has won many international prizes and honors throughout his career. In 1982, Quino was chosen Cartoonist of the Year by fellow cartoonists around the world, and has won twice the Konex Platinum Prize for Visual Arts. In 2000 he received the second Quevedos Prize for graphical humour. Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Premio iberoamericano de Humor Gráfico Quevedos (English: Spanish American Quevedos Award of Graphical Humour), Premio Quevedos in short, is decerned every second year by the University of Alcalá on behalf of the Spanish ministry of Education and Culture. ...

External link

• Quino's official webpage (English)

• "Errare humanum est" Quino´s original strip (Spanish)