FILE - In this May 21, 2014 file photo, Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado, better known as "Quino," gives a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)BUENOS AIRES ā JoaquĆn Salvador Lavado, an Argentine cartoonist better known as āQuinoā³ whose satirical comic strip about a socially conscious girl named Mafalda with a loathing for soup found fans across Latin America, Europe and beyond, died Wednesday.
The comic strip was introduced to Europe by Italian writer Umberto Eco and was eventually translated into two-dozen languages, the website said.
While Quino stopped drawing Mafalda regularly in the 1970s, the comic strip remained popular and he periodically drew it again, including for a campaign with UNICEF about adequate medical care for children and other rights.
One image shows the girl Mafalda at the head of a line of children in front of a nurse.