In 1962, as part of an advertisement project that never saw the light of day, Quino drew a little girl with a big mop of black hair who some years later would conquer young and older readers alike, all around the world. He also won the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades. In 2014 both he and Mafalda, his celebrated fictional character, received a Légion d’Honneur. Among his numerous accolades, Quino was made Ciudadano Ilustre of the cities of Mendoza and Buenos Aires. Soon he started publishing drawings and comic strips in different weekly magazines and became a renowned graphic illustrator and satirist whose work has been translated into many languages. He dropped out of art school in 1949 in order to become a cartoonist. Son of Andalusian migrants, Quino was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1932. For indeed on September 30 th the world stopped to let Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón – Quino by his pen name – get off at the age of 88. ¡Paren el mundo que me quiero bajar! Although for many years this famous sentence has been wrongly attributed to Mafalda, it fits the purpose for the beginning of our story.
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