Mafalda

"Mafalda 2 was an amazing book. It was just as funny as the first one if not funnier, and the first volume was REALLY funny. The book is a collection of Mafalda comic strips. The book is about a little girl, her friends, and all of their adventures. I would recommend it to fans of Calvin and Hobbes." —Theodore, aged 11, Glass of Wine, Glass of Milk

"Mafalda and her friends discuss the Cold War, Pelé, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fidel Castro, nuclear war, finance, fuel efficiency, agricultural reform, the meaning of life, human rights, equality, James Bond, Alfred Hitchcock, the Iron Curtain, space travel and John Glenn, IBM computers, advertising hype, hunger and poverty, UFOs, household expenses, reactionary politics, the Beatles, and neuroses. As a way of mediating important issues of the day, Mafalda is a heady experience . . . For parents and grandparents who want the youngest generation to have a diet more substantial than cartoons with arguments over lasagna leftovers." —Tom Bowden, The Book Beat


"[Mafalda] displays a master cartoonist’s grasp of character consistency and visual humor, exemplified when Mafalda squirts a long line of toothpaste from a tube so it looks like a microphone." —Peter Dabbene, Foreword Reviews

"Mafalda returns for a second helping of biting social commentary and great disdain for soup in a follow-up just as fresh and funny as the first volume . . .  Mafalda’s dramatic exclamations and frequent confrontations are well-served by Wynne’s fluid, lively translation. With its rather hard-to-resist hero, a charming, capable comic-strip collection." —Kirkus Reviews


"A brand new collection of Mafalda comics . . . if you were lucky enough to see the first Mafalda then this will not disappoint. Our diminutive heroine is still yearning for democracy and hating soup." — Betsy Bird, School Library Journal's Fuse 8 Blog


“Though her family was solidly middle class, Mafalda didn’t let that fool her into thinking that everything was fine in her unequal society. She was too sharp for that, too observant . . . She worries about the kinds of things that many parents want to protect their children from even noticing—poverty and war and repression . . . The expansive, bighearted politics of Quino’s strip feel out of step with this terrifying moment, but, then again, that may be precisely why now is the right time to return to its heroine.” — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker

“When wider American audiences do meet Mafalda, they’ll find a girl who resembles Ernie Bushmiller’s iconic character Nancy, but whose antics are entirely her own. Mafalda reaches for outer space on a seltzer-fueled jetpack, and is open to all kinds of experience. Even if she’s unlikely to help Democrats and Republicans get along, her brand of innocent but opinionated curiosity could show the so-called adults in the room how to do better by future generations.” —Benjamin P. Russell, The New York Times

“Each Quino book is happiness.” —Gabriel García Márquez