Ambiguous Innocence: Miguelito and Guille.

Alpha Bitch: Susanita has some of these traits.

uncomfortable question.Ĭut to the train that the father uses to go to work, with one of his feet bandaged.

Agony of the Feet: The father, in one strip, due to Mafalda's rather.

Ironically, Susanita is a Girly Girl ( Jerkass version, but still more typically feminine than Mafalda).

Affirmative Action Girl: invoked in the strip as the reason why Mafalda was introduced to Susanita, as before that the only other kids Mafalda knew and played with were male.

Adults Are Useless: Mafalda's parents are well-meaning but clueless, and no other adult around is much help to Mafalda and her friends.

Libertad ('Freedom', an actual name in Spanish), a girl who's remarkably small.

Guille, Mafalda's candid younger brother born around halfway of the strip's run, and.

Miguelito, a Momma's Boy who is somewhat rebellious and sometimes too eager to get into philosophical debates.

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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