Mafalda

Mafalda is a rebellious, unconventional, grumpy little girl. Her considerations manage to throw the complexities and hypocrisy of the adult world into crisis, making it collapse in the face of the disconcerting simplicity of her observations. The character was created in 1964 by the late Argentinian artist Quino, who adopted the style of Schulz in his comic strips, in which he showed children recreating the mechanisms of the adult world, tackling social and political issues with great intelligence and with an amazing sense of humour. Still today, almost sixty years since her creation, the disenchanted cynicism and philosophical reflections of Mafalda and her friends lay bare the defects and pettiness of a world that has possibly not changed all that much. Rather like the famous tale in which it is the innocence of a little boy that reveals the simplest, most obvious truth to the emperor.   Mafalda : Tutte le strisce Quino Salani, 2013