Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his 0) ____PEN____ name Quino (born 17 July 1932), is an Argentinean cartoonist.

His comic 1) __________Mafalda (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is very popular in South America and many parts of Europe.

Quino was born in Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina of Spanish parents.

He 2) __________ the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Mendoza, hoping to work for the Argentine comic RicoTipo, but left the school

in 1945. In 1950, he sold his first cartoon to a silk shop, but found 3) __________ success when he visited Buenos Aires for three

weeks. When he finished his obligatory military service, he returned to Buenos Aires in 1954, hoping to make a living 4)

__________ a graphic artist. Esto Es was the first periodical to publish Quino’s work, 5) __________ was later picked up by many

other Buenos Aires-based newspapers and magazines.

Some of his cartoons and editorials were then picked up by North American and European periodicals, leading to some

international success. In 1963, Quino found a publisher for his first book, a collection of silent comics titled Mundo Quino.

Quino’s daily newspaper strip Mafalda was his most successful cartooning venture. Mafalda ran from 1964 to 1973. The comic

was translated 6) __________ more than 30 languages. 7) ________________, it never received much of an audience in the

English-speaking world, perhaps because, as Quino put it, it was “too Latin American.” In 1976, the character Mafalda was

chosen by UNICEF to be a spokesperson for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Mafalda is still translated in book

collections.

8) __________ Mafalda continued to be used for human rights campaigns in Argentina and abroad, Quino dedicated himself to

writing other editorial-style comics. The comics were published in Argentina and abroad. Since 1982, the Argentine

newspaper Clarín has published his cartoons weekly.

After visiting Cuban cartoon director Juan Padrón, the two produced a series of cartoons. Between 1986 and 1988, they made

six Quinoscopio cartoons through the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficas, none of which were longer than

six minutes. In addition, the pair worked on 104 short Mafalda cartoons in 1994. While Mafalda concentrated 9) ___________

children and their innocent, realistic view of the world, his later comics featured ordinary people with ordinary feelings. The

humour is characteristically cynical, often making fun of real-life situations, 10) __________ as marriage, technology, authority

and food. Quino was awarded the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades on May 21, 2014.

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