Humor Gráfico. Quino

CARTOONS. QUINO.

This series on Cartoons was launched in 2014 with a stamp dedicated to Forges. Others followed in subsequent years on Peridis and Gallego and Rey.

This year, the new sheet block is dedicated to the genius Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, more famously known as Quino.

This new issue comprises a series of illustrations of various characters from Mafalda, his most international work. Manolito, Felipe and Libertad, the parents of the protagonist, and others surround the stamp. Above it, an illustration of Quino himself seems to look proudly upon the stamp dedicated to him, in which the famous Mafalda can be seen in an iconic image, contemplating the world.

Quino always knew that drawing was what he wanted to do. After starting at the School of Fine Arts, he realised that rather than paint urns and still-lifes, what he really wanted to create was cartoons and comic strips. And that is what he did. In 1954, he published his first page in the weekly Esto es in Buenos Aires.

From then on, his drawings appeared and still appear in numerous magazines and newspapers in Latin America and Europe.

In 1963, he published his first book of humour, Mundo Quino, which is a compilation of wordless cartoons.

Later on, for an advertising campaign, he created a series of characters whose names had to begin with M. The campaign never came to anything, but among other things, it served to create his most international character, Mafalda.

The little girl who hates soup and constantly questions the world of adults first appeared in 1964 in the weekly Primera Plana in Buenos Aires. The character would later go on to achieve fame in the newspaper El Mundo, in which she appeared six times a week.

Books and collections followed, until he stopped drawing this quirky character in 1973. However, he continued to do what he did best - create stories with a pencil, paper and his unbeatable wit.