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Semi-OT: Soup-related..."Mafalda" comic strip
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Lenona
Sep 30, 2020, 6:23:58 PM9/30/20
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Sad to say, the creator of the strip, world-famous Argentine cartoonist Quino, has died, aged 88.
"Mafalda" ran for about 10 years and was translated into more than two dozen languages - about as many as "Calvin & Hobbes"!
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.comics.strips/c/vxQ0qZ4AOoY
(very long - it includes the BBC obit)
Excerpt from the thread (I wrote the following):
Mafalda is 5 years old (she does age, at half-speed) and is always worried about the global situation and plans to be an interpreter at the U.N. when she's older so she can translate politicians' insults into compliments and bring about world peace. Strong patriot, wise, progressive, loves the Beatles and hates soup.***** Has a turtle named Bureaucracy.
The other child characters include:
Felipe, an amiable, procrastinating, daydreaming boy. Loves the Lone Ranger.
Susanita, a bourgeois racist little girl who dreams only of Cinderella, rich husbands, babies, household goods and canasta parties. Always wears a very maternal bubble-cut hairstyle and pearl stud earrings. Fights with Manolito. Talks non-stop.
Miguelito, a narcissistic pseudo-intellectual with feathery hair to match. His Italian family keeps an antiseptic house and worships Mussolini.
Libertad, a tiny, fierce but naive left-wing revolutionary. She resembles Charles Schulz's Sally in her hair, energy, and academic cluelessness.
Manolito, the greedy capitalist stooge. Literally blockheaded, with a crewcut. He helps his father in their low-quality grocery store, plans to own a chain of supermarkets, is (usually) culturally illiterate, and when an angry customer wants to return a rotten salami, says "lady, nobody gets to return their newspapers when they don't like the news!" Worships Rockefeller. Hates the Beatles. Fights with Susanita.
Guille, Mafalda's lisping pacifier-hooked macho baby brother who is also hooked on Brigitte Bardot. Loves soup. Causes frequent embarrassment in typical toddler fashion.
*****From what I understand, decades ago (during the Depression?), soup used to be the only thing most Argentines could afford to eat, so naturally it was mandatory for kids to eat it and the saying sprang up "si no comes la sopa no vas a crecer," which means "if you don't eat your soup you won't grow." From this, Quino turned soup into a symbol of governmental oppression. In real life, Quino loved soup.
Lenona.
"Mafalda" ran for about 10 years and was translated into more than two dozen languages - about as many as "Calvin & Hobbes"!
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.comics.strips/c/vxQ0qZ4AOoY
(very long - it includes the BBC obit)
Excerpt from the thread (I wrote the following):
Mafalda is 5 years old (she does age, at half-speed) and is always worried about the global situation and plans to be an interpreter at the U.N. when she's older so she can translate politicians' insults into compliments and bring about world peace. Strong patriot, wise, progressive, loves the Beatles and hates soup.***** Has a turtle named Bureaucracy.
The other child characters include:
Felipe, an amiable, procrastinating, daydreaming boy. Loves the Lone Ranger.
Susanita, a bourgeois racist little girl who dreams only of Cinderella, rich husbands, babies, household goods and canasta parties. Always wears a very maternal bubble-cut hairstyle and pearl stud earrings. Fights with Manolito. Talks non-stop.
Miguelito, a narcissistic pseudo-intellectual with feathery hair to match. His Italian family keeps an antiseptic house and worships Mussolini.
Libertad, a tiny, fierce but naive left-wing revolutionary. She resembles Charles Schulz's Sally in her hair, energy, and academic cluelessness.
Manolito, the greedy capitalist stooge. Literally blockheaded, with a crewcut. He helps his father in their low-quality grocery store, plans to own a chain of supermarkets, is (usually) culturally illiterate, and when an angry customer wants to return a rotten salami, says "lady, nobody gets to return their newspapers when they don't like the news!" Worships Rockefeller. Hates the Beatles. Fights with Susanita.
Guille, Mafalda's lisping pacifier-hooked macho baby brother who is also hooked on Brigitte Bardot. Loves soup. Causes frequent embarrassment in typical toddler fashion.
*****From what I understand, decades ago (during the Depression?), soup used to be the only thing most Argentines could afford to eat, so naturally it was mandatory for kids to eat it and the saying sprang up "si no comes la sopa no vas a crecer," which means "if you don't eat your soup you won't grow." From this, Quino turned soup into a symbol of governmental oppression. In real life, Quino loved soup.
Lenona.
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