Cartoonist, Writer, Humourist. Born Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón in Mendoza, they called him Quino from a young age to distinguish him from his uncle, the illustrator Joaquín, who was the one who awakened his vocation as a cartoonist at a very young age. In 1945, after the death of his mother, he began to study at the School of Bellas Artes in Mendoza. When he was seventeen he dropped out of school, intending to become a comic book author, and soon sold his first work. He published his first humorous page in the weekly "Esto Es," from then on he began to publish in many other media, including: "Leoplán," "TV Guía," "Vea y Lea," "Damas y Damitas," "Usted," "Panorama," among others. He published his first compilation book, "Mundo Quino," in 1963, after which he was commissioned some pages for a covert advertising campaign for the Mansfield appliance company, for which he created what would become his most famous character, "Mafalda." The campaign was never carried out, so the first Mafalda story was published in "Leoplán," after which it was published regularly in the weekly "Primera Plana." Between 1965 and 1967 "Mafalda" was published in the newspaper "El Mundo", he soon published the first compilation book and began to be published in other countries, including Italy, Spain and Portugal. After leaving the Mafalda strip on June 25, 1973, according to himself because he ran out of ideas, Quino moved to Milan, from where he continued to make humorous comic pages. On May 21, 2014, he obtained the "Prince of Asturias" Award for Communication and Humanities, an award that was presented to him on the following October 25. He passed away on September 30, 2020, after being hospitalized due to a stroke, at the age of eighty-eight. The day before, fifty-six years had passed since the first publication of his most emblematic strip, Mafalda.