History ComicStrip / Mafalda

* Mafalda, the main character. LittleMissSnarker (maybe one of the first examples), a precocious and [[SoapboxSadie politically opinionated girl]]; and no, she was NOT [[spoiler:run over by a soup truck]], despite what the {{Fanon}} may believe;

*** This is most likely due to the words for ''Earth'' (''Tierra'') and ''shit'' (''mierda'') sounding alike in Spanish.

* TheVietnamWar: Referenced on several occasions. At one point, Mafalda dreams she meets an American soldier and a Viet Cong fighter, and shames them into stopping the war.

''Mafalda'', Argentinian cartoonist ComicStrip/{{Quino}}'s masterpiece, is perhaps the most popular comic strip in the Spanish speaking world. It could be sketchily described as "''{{Peanuts}}'' with politics". Unlike the timeless world Charles Schulz's creations inhabit, Mafalda and her friends are deeply concerned with world politics, war and the state of humanity. The strip ran from 1962 to 1973, with a weeklong hiatus in March 1965 and a longer interruption from December 1967 to June 1968. It's been translated to several languages.

* FreeRangeChildren: Mafalda and the others are often seen wandering the streets of Buenos Aires by themselves. It's actually fitting for the time of the comics (the sixties) where children didn't have TV, video games, and definitely not the Internet. So much everyone did was spend time with friends around the neighboorhood's streets.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In one strip, Mafalda tells Felipe about a report she heard on the radio about how "a nuclear conflict would affect us all". Felipe replies "Wow! That's the first time *I* was ever mentioned on the radio!"
** In another strip, Felipe offers to share some cookies with Mafalda prompting the latter to [[SoapboxSadie grimly remark on the injustice that they are eating cookies while so many people are starving throughout the world]]. Felipe shouts "YOU NEVER CHANGE!" and leaves. Mafalda retorts that that isn't true: [[ExactWords she used to be younger]].

* EpicFail: Susanita’s attempts at poetry and political speeches fall into this.

--> '''Kids''': . . .

* ImagineSpot: Felipe ''lives and breathes this trope!''

* InsaneTrollLogic: Libertad's bread and butter.

** SpoiledBrat: May be an explanation. She ''is'' an only child, after all.

** JerkassHasAPoint: In one strip, Susanita says that she want to have plenty of dresses when she grows up, and Mafalda replies she wants to have plenty of culture. Susanita replies as follows:

* AgonyOfTheFeet: the father, in one strip, due to Mafalda's rather...uncomfortable question.

* {{Angrish}}, or rather Spangrish: "¡SUNESCAN! ¡DALUNA BUSO!" -> regular Spanish: "¡Es un escandalo, un abuso!" -> English: "It's a scandal, an abuse!" (Raquel storming home and speaking, or, more accurately, yelling about the rising price of the groceries)

* [[BookDumb Book (and World) Dumb]]: Manolito, due to his interest in being a shopkeeper, simply shuns any information not related with that. His only strong subject in school is Math, and he is ''atrocious'' even on things of common knowledge (for example, he apparently thought "John Doe" to be an historical figure, and refers to [[{{seppuku}} harakiri]] as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikebana ikebana]]")
** In one strip, the class delivers a report about America. Manolito then asks Mafalda "By the way, 'America' isn't spelled with an 'H', right?" When she says no, Manolito is happy that he got it right... then we see a dejected teacher next to a pile of reports all with a map of America on the cover...except for Manolito's which is ''flipped''.

* NationalStereotypes: Manolito has thick brows, pointed hair, has a strong disdain for education and is more than a little obtuse; all these were considered stereotypical Spaniard traits in Argentina at the time (Manolito's father is Spanish). Currently this is becoming more of a DiscreditedTrope.

* [[ShesAManInJapan She's a Man in Sweden]]: Libertad is a man in Sweden. Why? Because that way, sh... ''he'' can be named Fred, which is both a name and Swedish for "peace."

* TheSixties: Men with long hair, bell-bottom pants and [[Music/TheBeatles British pop music]] - and not everyone likes it.

* Felipe, a [[CloudCuckoolander dreamy boy]] with a deep resentment for school, [[ShrinkingViolet huge insecurity problems]] and [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily huge teeth]];

* FanNickname: Mafalda's dad was never officially named, but "Alberto" and "Pelicarpo" seem to be accepted by some fans.

** From an unspecified falling out early in the strip onwards, Susanita and Manolito act like they outright hate each other. Lampshaded in a strip with Mafalda and Susanita speaking about how they have very opposite mindsets and fight over key issues so often no one, even them, knows how or why they are still friends. [[MomentOfHeartwarming Then both hug each other]].

Recently, [[https://www.google.com/search?q=statue+of+mafalda&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRnaO38pPSAhVB_WMKHQt5CusQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=_ a statue of Mafalda]] (and her friends) was unveiled in Buenos Aires.

Recently, [[http://www.elborgo.com/images/stories/mafalda_2.jpg a statue of Mafalda]] was unveiled in Buenos Aires.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Guille and his reactions every time Brigitte Bardot is shown or mentioned.
** More than once Guille is not wearing any pants with the tip of his penis slightly visible. The first time, he's running away from his mother holding his pants; Mafalda tells a shocked Felipe that it's "Guille's uncut version escaping censorship".

* [[HouseWife Raquel]] and [[SalaryMan Alberto]], Mafalda's affectionate but nondescript parents;

* [[HouseWife Raquel]] and [[SalaryMan the father]], Mafalda's affectionate but nondescript parents;

** JerkassHasAPoint: In one strip, Mafalda starts meantioning to Susanita again of the horrible things that happen in the world; Susanita, who had a look of being feed up of this, responded her with this, even if at the end she kinda ruined it.
-->'''Susanita''': And are we guilty of that? No, can we fix it? No, all we can do know is to say is how terrible.
-->'''Susanita''': '''HOW TERRIBLE''', ok, now you too yell how terrible and lets go to play in peace.

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* [[BookDumb Book (and World) Dumb]]: Manolito, due to his interest in being a shopkeeper, simply shuns any information not related with that. His only strong subject in school is Math, and he is ''atrocious'' even on things of common knowledge (for example, he apparently thought "John Doe" to be an historical figure, and refers to [[{{seppuku}} harakiri]] as "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikebana ikebana]]")

* CloudCuckoolander: Felipe and Miguelito, in different ways. Felipe is the daydreaming type, while Miguelito has curious leaps of logic.

** [[RunningGag Manolito]] breaks Guille’s toy car when trying to wind it.

** TheHero-Mafalda
** TheLancer: Felipe
** TheSmartGuy: Miguelito
** TheBigGuy:Manolito

*** TheChick: Susanita, whose always gossiping

** Manolito trying to sell stale or substandard foodstuffs and his ''hatred'' of Music/TheBeatles

* [[ShesAManInJapan She's A Man In Sweden]]: Libertad is a man in Sweden. Why? Because that way, sh... ''he'' can be named Fred, which is both a name and Swedish for "peace."

* ShrinkingViolet: Reflected in Felipe, the author himself is described as incredibly shy. A friend of his even commented “in Quino’s presence, one always feels like an intruder.”

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Soup

** From an unspecified falling out early in the strip onwards, Susanita and Manolito act like they outright hate each other. Lampshaded in a strip with Mafalda and Susanita speaking about how they have very opposite mindsets and fight over key issues so often no one, even them, knows how or why they are still friends. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Then both hug each other]].

* GoodWithNumbers: Mandolito. Unfortunately, he's not good at much else.

** YankTheDogsChain: Manolito eventually comes up with the ''Manolo's Card'', which enables customers to buy things and pay other time; it get's popular, too popular at the end.

* JerkAss: Susanita again. Her Jerkassery reached its peak when Mafalda was sad that her family wouldn't go on vacation due to Guille's impeding birth. Susanita (horribly jealous about Mafalda getting a baby brother) proceeded to rub it in at every opportunity.
** JerkAssHasAPoint: In one strip, Mafalda starts meantioning to Susanita again of the horrible things that happen in the world; Susanita, who had a look of being feed up of this, responded her with this, even if at the end she kinda ruined it.

* FreudianExcuse: Lampshaded in one strip where the kids are playing to be gangsters, and Susanita wants to be the leader, but claims that she isn´t evil deep inside, but a "product from society" instead.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Ángel, in one strip, due to Mafalda's rather...uncomfortable question.

--> '''Ángel''': (Cutting the nails of his toes): Yeah?

--> Cut to the train that Ángel uses to go to work, with one of his feet bandaged.

* DubNameChange: The Swedish names are as follows: Susanne, Filip, Emanuel, Mikael, Fred (Libertad), Lillen (Guille), and Rakel. Ángel never gets a name. Mafalda? She's Mafalda, of course. What else could she be?

** One time Guille got in his parents's bed in the middle of the night, next to his sleeping mom. Ángel muttered he was going to wake her up and he replied "Are you jealous because you didn't know her since birth and I do?"

* ManChild: Ángel- riding a slide in the park when no one's looking, playing 'pirates' by himself (just when Mafalda and friends walk in on him), and (when prodded by Mafalda) remembering a bit too vividly how much he hated school.

** Ángel, sometimes. One in particular happens when Mafalda asks him about his obligatory military service, and he speaks non-stop for half of a day.

** Raquel and Angel get quite a lot of vile remarks from their daughter for being a housewife and a salaryman, respectively.

* UnnamedParent: Raquel's name is mentioned in only ''one'' strip, and Ángel's name is ''NEVER'' mentioned at all in the comic, except one time in which Raquel uses his name in a diminutive way and in a situation which makes it look like more of a nickname than his true name.

* [[HouseWife Raquel]] and [[SalaryMan Ángel]], Mafalda's affectionate but nondescript parents;

* AbsurdlyWorldlyChildren

* ArtEvolution

* DreamSequence

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes

* LittleProfessorDialog

* NoEnding

* UnitConfusion

* [[TheNapoleon Liber]][[MeaningfulName tad]] ("Freedom", an actual name in Spanish), a girl who's remarkably small. Has left wing leanings.

* [[TheNapoleon Libertad]] ("Freedom", an actual name in Spanish), a girl who's remarkably small. Has left wing leanings.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Guille and his reactions every time Briggite Bardot is shown or mentioned.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: For TheSixties. Most strips don't show it, but enough of them make enough references to place them in that time period.