Quino’s Mafalda is finally here!
We are excited today to announce the official release of Quino’s Mafalda: Book One, now available to buy on our website and everywhere books are sold! From satires on capitalism to the greater political and social world of Quino’s Buenos Aires, Mafalda portrays a generation’s angst and earnest hope for the future in every small adventure with her cast of friends.
From the Paris Review, Julie Kornberg wrote this week: “In many ways, the intergenerational battle that Mafalda represents still rings true, and is bound to educate nonconformist children in conformist times.”
Quino, the award-winning cartoonist behind Mafalda; Quino draws Mafalda on the beach.
In a review published just yesterday by Benjamin Russell of the New York Times, he praises: “When wider American audiences do meet Mafalda, they’ll find a girl who resembles Ernie Bushmiller’s iconic character Nancy, but whose antics are entirely her own . . . ‘What Mafalda teaches you when you’re little, if you start to read with these books, isn’t to behave yourself but rather to ask questions, to doubt the world that comes from on high.’”
Mafalda is one of the most iconic and beloved Argentine comics in history, called “the hero of our time” by Umberto Eco and Quino’s work as books of “happiness” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Happy and curious reading to all of our rebellious readers, young and old!
Quino carries Mafalda.
