We all look at those fascinating reductions of reality that newspaper cartoons of guys like Quino, but also of peridis, Ibáñez and the disappeared Forges or Mingote.
In the magical synthesis that these small scenes of just two or three movements implied, the characters of these cartoonist masters crumbled our reality with a critical, ironic, surrealist intention. Comic strips that in reality always left the residue of the intelligence with which they had been conceived.
They were always right or right. It is about rescuing that anecdotal or transcendent news to elevate it to the category of symbol of the day, of chronicle that in its continuity wrote that parallel reality, as hieroglyphs of our civilization, understood by all at a quick glance.
Top 3 recommended books by Quino
All Mafalda
Emblem of feminism and curious sifted between the infantile vision of the world with its essential point of clairvoyance with the most open criticism of the girl always capable of discovering the naked emperor. Todo Mafalda compiles all her vignettes between 1964 and 2014 in a powerful special edition for the 50th anniversary, thus becoming an essential book for all lovers of the little girl who rediscovers the world in her inexhaustible journey in 50 years of our history.
Quino has been showing us for many years now that children are the repositories of wisdom. The bad thing for the world is that as they grow up they lose the use of reason, they forget at school what they knew at birth, they marry without love, they work for money, brush their teeth, cut their nails… and in the end - turned into miserable adults - they don't drown in a glass of water, but in a bowl of soup.
10 years with Mafalda
A new edition of Lumen for this reference of the Mafalda passed to the immortality of the book. Through Mafalda and his friends, Quino reflects with critical and intelligent humor on politics, the economy and society in general. Malfalda has been translated and published in various languages ​​and countries.
A strange phenomenon occurs with Mafalda, it is always topical because Quino has known how to keep the referent of the girl who does not change current, like a new Little Prince, in whose vision of the world of a clever girl we can guess the critical sense necessary for everything.
This is not everything
A compilation of all volumes of selected Quino vignettes published by Lumen. A magnificent compilation of the best work by the brilliant Argentine cartoonist Quino, awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities and the Medal of the Order and Letters of France, as it brings together all the volumes of selected vignettes by the humorist previously published by Lumen .
The book offers us a magnificent unity of thought and vision of its author, who brings his pencils and his sometimes sarcastic, sometimes critical, sometimes naive and sometimes surrealist, always poetic gaze closer to the human being in society, with its contradictions, his tics and his manias and miseries.
Religion, death, taxes, love and sex, marriage, childhood, war, office, individualism and collectivism, medicine, capital, old age, poverty, art and science , everything is subjected to the lucid and fierce vision of an author who, if that were not enough, is a master of drawing. A successful editing and an excellent way to bring to the fore who is undoubtedly one of the best comedians in Spanish of the XNUMXth century
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