The New Yorker's Daniel Alarcón on the history of a classic Argentinian comic strip, which ran there from 1964 to 1973, and which is finally getting an English translation. The strip by cartoonist Quino, ran throughout Argentina's junta years, when such leftist protest and satire could easily lead to prison or worse. Asked what the strip's fearless six-year-old protagonist would be doing in adulthood, Quinto replied: "Mafalda never would have reached adulthood. She would be among Argentina's thirty thousand disappeared."

I'd never heard of this strip before, but the article was interesting enough to make me order the first translated volume. Seems there's a NetFlix adaptation coming too.