Joaquín Salvador Lavado was born on July 17, 1932, precisely nine decades ago. Readers and coworkers alike admired and loved him, and the way he communicated his views in his writing caused both laughter and reflection in those who read it. Here is an excellent example.
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When Kuki Miller, Quino's longtime editor at Ediciones De la Flor, reported his death at about noon on September 30, 2020, the globe was still engulfed in the epidemic that had been raging since the morning of September 30, 2020. His true name was Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejón, and he was 88 years old when he passed away. Because his vignettes once again got sexualized, the departure celebrations on the networks went on for many days. There was constantly something fresh that occurred, which startled you, which made you think, which made you laugh, and which affected you.
During that time, the illustrator Pablo Bernasconi reflected on the event as follows during a phone interview with Infobae Cultura: "I felt it like the departure of a loved one and even more than a family member: someone who represents so many things and is so foundational in the intellectual and emotional growth. of a person." A nation's whole population was able to say their last goodbyes to one of its greatest performers. We would be commemorating the occasion of his ninetieth birthday if he were still with us today.
Quino waited for Mafalda's birthday, and then the next day, he passed away peacefully. This is how it was meant to go, according to destiny. It was on September 29, 1964, that a comic strip featuring his iconic figure was published for the first time in the magazine Primera Plana. Over the years, the magazine expanded in readership and circulation until it became the most well-known and widely read. She was described as "the character of the seventies" by the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco, who also referred to her as "a true'rebellious' heroine, who rejects the world as it is."
But Quino was also one of those artists who, beyond his works, left something behind in every discussion, every interview, and every public intervention he took part in. The notion behind that item was consistently sound. He was lucid, had a sense of humor, and was intelligent, all of which let him reach profound regions with the ease of a joke. He was brilliant both on the paper and in real life. The following are some examples of sentences that, when said, unlock a whole other universe.
"Stop the world! I want to get off!" "Stop the world!"
"I have never done anything other than draw, nor do I know how to do it, but yes: go to the movies, drink excellent wine, and listen to music." "I have never done anything other than draw, nor do I know how to." But sketching has been my exclusive preoccupation throughout my whole life.
"I have never thought of myself as anything other than a person who works with drawings."
"The purpose of humor is to draw attention to the ridiculous things that we as humans do,"
"It's weird, when you shut your eyes, the world goes away," the person said.
"The issue is that there are many more individuals who are interested in something than there are fascinating people."
"The ideal situation would be for your brain to be located in your chest and your heart to be located in your head. So that we may love while thinking, and think while loving.
"Yes, I am aware that there are more people who study problems than study solutions. But what exactly are we planning to do to him?
If I had to provide advice, it would be that we should all be happy without questioning why.
Where do we need to exert the most pressure in order to move our nation forward?
"And to wrap it up, how does the situation stand? Who moves forward, the person who lives their life, or the life that lives them?
"If you don't do dumb things while you're young, you'll have nothing to grin about when you're old," said a wise person once.
"As is usually the case, the moment one plants one's foot on the ground, the good times are gone."
"Since liking one another doesn't seem to work out, why don't we give it a shot?"
"Half of the people on the planet have a soft spot for canines, but nobody can define the word 'wow'."
"When it comes down to it, all of mankind is nothing more than a piece of flesh stuffed in between the heavens and the earth."
"They say that man is an animal of habit, but rather than man is an animal, habit is what makes him an animal."
What if, rather of spending so much time preparing, we aimed a bit higher?
"As is usually the case, the important is pushed to the side in favor of the urgent."
"Some people adore me for being who I am, and some despise me for the same reason, but the purpose I came to this world was to try to be happy," she said. Because we can't make everyone happy!"