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Ulises Gonzales Comments on New Edition of a Cultural Touchstone
August 11, 2025
Ulises Gonzales, a journalist, cartoonist, and lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, spoke with palabra, the publication of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, about the new English translation of a beloved Argentine comic strip that captivated readers of all ages across the Spanish-speaking world—and beyond.
Titled after its six-year-old protagonist, the comic originally ran from 1964 to 1973, a politically turbulent era. Its creator, Quino, wove subtle political and social commentary into the everyday adventures of a curious little girl and her friends.
“Mafalda … seems to be about a group of little kids in Buenos Aires,” he told palabra, but it is actually “about values, democracy, the state of the world, living under a dictatorship.”