By Rich Tenorio | Edited by Patricia Guadalupe

A six-year-old girl with a mane of black hair stares at the bowl of soup before her. Steam swirls over a slice of French bread. “Soup is to childhood what communism is to democracy!” she declares.

Welcome to “Mafalda,” the beloved comic strip by the late Argentine cartoonist Quino that’s getting a delayed introduction to English-speaking readers. “Mafalda” offered different rewards to different Spanish-speaking demographics across Latin America since its nine-year run from 1964 to 1973 and extended afterlife. Kids could laugh at the antics of the impish, inquisitive yet innocent title character and her family and friends. Adults could smile at the strip’s subversive political humor, including jabs at the Vietnam War and subtler tweaks at Arg

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