![]() ![]() Mafalda despairs at the state of the world. The space race, the Vietnam war, the Beatles, wash-and-wear suits and inflation-already a growing problem in Argentina-all make an appearance. She drives her father, a mild-mannered office worker whose hobby is potted plants, to distraction with her questions. If her mother hadn’t dropped out of university to get married, “you would have a degree in your hands and not a pile of shirts,” she tells her. “The bad thing about the human family is that everyone wants to be the father,” she says. ![]() She wants to put the ingredients on trial for “illicit association”. In one strip she reads a newspaper recipe for vegetable broth. Mafalda, he wrote, is “an irate heroine who rejects the world as it is…defending her right to continue to be a girl who doesn’t want to take charge of a world spoiled by adults”. Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, was an early fan. ![]()
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