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Rouselle F. Lavado is a Health Specialist at the Asian Development Bank working on a maternal and child health project in Tajikistan and conducting sector.

Quino liked to draw from an early age — his mother recalls that he was allowed to draw on the kitchen table, provided he cleaned up afterward. Quino was born in Argentina in , his family made up of Spanish republicans. At that time, the South American city was the center of a thriving comics scene, with its own magazines, schools, and traditions, and Quino quickly rose to the top thanks to hard work and talent.

Quino was always a hard artist to pin down. He received countless prizes over the years including the Prince of Asturias Award in But his crowning achievement was the creation of a globally beloved comic strip: Mafalda. Mafalda was born in the s.

Born May , Lavado began his racing career because of his admiration for fellow countryman Johnny Cecotto, who was the World GP champion in

Quino made his first sketch of Mafalda for an advertising agency that was trying to subliminally sell a new line of locally manufactured home appliances to the new Argentine middle classes. The ad agency asked for a combination of Peanuts and Blondie. Quino responded by creating a married couple and two children. This anecdote speaks volumes about the fluid intermingling of economic, social, and cultural processes taking place at the heart of the new Latin American middle classes.

The ad campaign was ultimately sidelined, and when the cartoonist returned to his original sketches in , he fatefully decided to remove the son who bore a strong resemblance to Charlie Brown. Quino had a hunch: take the boy out and make the protagonist an intellectually curious and rebellious little girl from the middle classes. She would live in a small Buenos Aires apartment and her looks would be androgynous.

She would ask questions about politics that kept her father up at night and raise feminist issues that made her mother cry.