Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic.

• Author: Morris, Jeffery

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Cosse, Isabella. Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic. Translated by Laura Perez Carrara. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Isabella Cosse has produced a thoroughly researched, analytically robust, and well-written work on how the comic strip Mafalda has reflected and shaped Argentinian society. Originally published in 2014 by Fondo de Cultura Economica de Argentina, this English-language edition, aptly translated by Laura Perez Carrara, was published by Duke University Press as part of the Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao series. Cosse, an independent researcher for the National Science and Technology Research Council and the University of Buenos Aires, has authored historical works on topics that include gender, the family, and middle-class society.

Mafalda was created by Joaquin Salvador Lavado, known by the pen name Quino, who introduced the strip to the Argentinian public in 1964 and produced it until...