![]() Susanita, Mafalda's gossipy best female friend with blonde hair and the dream of marrying into riches.Manolito, a shopkeeper's son obsessed with money and business to the point he is quite dumb about everything else.Felipe, a dreamy boy with a deep resentment for school, huge insecurity problems and huge teeth.Raquel and the father, Mafalda's affectionate but nondescript parents. ![]() Little Miss Snarker (maybe one of the first examples), a precocious and politically opinionated girl and no, she was NOT run over by a soup truck, despite what the Fanon may believe ![]() The main characters are (in order of appearance in the strip): ![]() In 2009, a statue of Mafalda (and her friends) was unveiled in Buenos Aires. It's been translated to several languages. The strip ran from 1962 to 1973, with a weeklong hiatus in March 1965 and a longer interruption from December 1967 to June 1968. ![]() Unlike the timeless world Charles Schulz's creations inhabit, Mafalda and her friends are deeply concerned with world politics, war and the state of humanity. It could be sketchily described as " Peanuts with politics". Mafalda, Argentinian cartoonist Quino's masterpiece, is perhaps the most popular comic strip in the Spanish speaking world. ![]()
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