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Argentine cartoonist Quino, creator of 'Mafalda' comic, dies

by Associated Press
| October 3, 2020 12:07 AM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Joaquín Salvador Lavado, an Argentine cartoonist better known as “Quino″ whose satirical comic strip about a socially conscious girl named Mafalda with a loathing for soup found fans across Latin America, Europe and beyond, died Wednesday. He was 88.

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