Comic Strips and Comic Books
Quino's Mafalda is one of the internationally best-known Argentine comic strips and comic-book series. Its humour is related to local and international politics.
Caricaturist Andrés Cascioli edited and created cover art for one of the nation's longest-running satirical publications, Humor, which ran from 1978 to 1999, and frequently met with censorship. Maitena is another successful comic-book writer, dealing with women and family values.
Fontanarrosa was another famous Argentine cartoonist, known for his comic strip Inodoro Pereyra featuring a gaucho.
See: Gaturro, Macanudo, Yo, Matías
Read more about this topic: Argentine Humour
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