—El loco Chávez (Carlos Trillo/ Horacio Altuna). “It was part of my daily life, because I would read it every day in Clarín newspaper. The comic strip connected with a real space, with our everyday issues. It is a classic, there is a before and after El loco Chávez. Unlike Hugo Pratt’s El corto Maltés, a classical hero of adventure comics, there was nothing special about the life of El loco Chávez. He was an average man who lived in BA city, the things that happened to him weren’t special. Still, he was interesting.”
—Inodoro Pereyra (Roberto “Negro” Fontanarrosa). “He makes a parody of a genre I like a lot, the gauchesco. When you make an effort to draw some lines and accomplish a joke that lives up to your expectations, you appreciate Inodoro Pereyra. It has seven or eight jokes condensed in one page, it sounds like a conversation, with a perfect structure, it’s wonderful. I wish I could write something like that”.
—Mafalda. “She was what astonished me most about comic strips. When I was given a book published by De la Flor, it was striking. The jokes are brilliant and clever, and I love the way its drawings look like. Quino has something particular: the exaggerated gestures are easy to create, but he comes up with subtle details, minimal actions that represent attitudes and it is the most complicated thing to get. Mafalda’s look shows much more that her appearance, but her social status, her personality.”