Trivia / Mafalda

• Creator Breakdown: Downplayed, but Quino stopped producing the strip after finding it increasingly difficult to come up with gags and punchlines.
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • Manolito, Felipe, and Miguelito were all voiced by women in the 1972 animated series. Averted in the 1990s shorts where they were voiced by men.
  • Guille (Mafalda's baby brother) was voiced by a women in the 1990s animated shorts.
• Merchandise-Driven: Mafalda was created by Quino on commission to come up with a mascot as part of an advertising campaign for a home appliances line. The basic idea was to regularly publish strips in the press showing the appliances along with the characters. The campaign was canceled before it started, leaving Quino with the core characters which were recycled in the now famous comic strip.

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