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200.38.162.21 21:41, 12 March 2007 (UTC)I find it insanely funny that this article is rated as "Comics of unknown quality". Mafalda is the best known comic of all Latin America, of all time. This, of course, being America-centric wikipedia should be a clue of why nobody has ever heard of her. Here's an idea - not knowing about something doesn't make it any less important.
Regarding the following text from the entry: "She has occasionally been compared to Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown, most notably by Umberto Eco in 1968, for reasons Quino doesn't understand. This comparison has made publication of "Mafalda" in English difficult." It would be nice to know the reasons stated by Eco and by Quino. A reference would be nice, though I suspect where Eco might say something (I will look it up). An explanation of why this comparison has made publication in English difficult would be nice, I really do not understand this, quite on the contrary. --
Cangelis
14:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I googled to get the the following quote: "Since our children are soon to become through our choice a multitude of Mafaldas, it would be rash not to treat Mafalda with the respect a real person deserves." source http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_2000_July/ai_63845121 --Anonymous
I think it is worth mentioning the fact that Felipe is in love with the daughter of the pharmacist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.66.78.1 ( talk • contribs)
So is it pills or drops? I think in some strips it's implied that it's drops. Felipe, though, takes it as pills ("nervocalm grageas"). So which is it? :o) Vince In Milan 03:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Am I the only one wondering if words like "we´re screwed" and "bitching out" are really appropriate to 1960s 5 year olds. I´m not denying that they´re appropriate translations now but they wouldn't've been then and I´m wondering if we shouldn't keep that in mind.-- Shadebug 12:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
200.38.162.21 21:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)"Sonamos" is not "we are dreaming". It's "We sounded", a phrase that can't be translated. It basically means "We are in trouble". It doesn't mean "We are screwed".
You beat me to that... "we're dreaming" would be "soñamos", with a Ñ. I still agree that "we're screwed" is not correct, especially since "sonamos" is a rather old-fashioned way of saying "we're in trouble".
-- Damifb 16:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I´m surprised to see no reference to Guille´s intense posessiveness towards his mother, any reason for that?-- Shadebug 12:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
I was reading news from Clarin, and said that legislation had created a house of Mafalda in Buenos Aires. I was just wondering whether I was reading that correctly since my Spanish isn't that great, and whether it's important enough to be added in the mafalda page. 132.239.90.173 20:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't mention Mafalda's mother real name, which is Raquel. Mafalda does mention it once in early strips. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Juanchito2006 ( talk • contribs) 02:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC).
Why this article doesnt make mention to Mafalda's Dad? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.45.111.69 ( talk) 04:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
Shouldn't an article about Mafalda make reference to the fact that about 90% of the strips are political in nature? Let me give you the very best example (found on Mafalda 3) Miguelito is tip-toeing, and a bypasser asks Mafalda why that is, and she responds "Well, he's just found out that in the other half of the world, people are sleeping, so he doesn't want to wake them up" and then she ponders "He still hasn't figured out that in this world one half is incapable of hearing the other" making a reference to the bipolar political map of the sixties.
-- Damifb 16:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Many of the things mentioned in the section "Characters" are completely out of focus and in some cases downright wrong (eg. Mafalda's hate for James Bond ???). I'd like to make serious contribution to the article but I have to take into account two things beforehand...
i. Do the 12 small books offer sufficient knowledge of the characters and their evolution? I think they do, but after all the comic is not exactly character-specific... however I'd like to listen to somebody who has read more than the 12 books.
ii. How can we cite specific strips? Is there a general Wikipedia guideline? In this case we cannot use distinctive "marks", as there are no dates or titles.
If there's someone who can help me with these issues (especially the second one), I could attempt a big scale improvement within the next month. Daprof 01:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you both! I also want to correct myself, when I said "the comic is not exactly character-specific" I meant to write that it's not action-specific; it relies heavily on the characters, but rather on what they think and say instead of what they do, so it can't be very helpful for an encyclopedia article to mention traits that appeared 2 or 3 times (James Bond is a good example of this, or Guille's "crush on Brigitte Bardot", come on... this is stuff for a fan page or forum).
Cheers again. Daprof 11:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
As promised, I begun working on the article (so far I've only changed the intro a bit). I plan to try to embed "Trivia" in an "Overview" (will be tricky), do something about the citations, and heavily hack the characters section (have a look at french or spanish wikipedia to see what I mean). Daprof 12:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
...Mafalda's father was removed from the characters section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.137.40.236 ( talk) 03:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
"Mafalda La Pelicula" was released in Buenos Aires in 1981, but it was made in 1979 according to Cinecin. Amazon.com lists it as 1981 as well, and I think their information comes from Venevision. IMDB shows it as 1982, so I'm not sure. I went with the Cinecin citation. Mvblair ( talk) 22:46, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
The article as it stands (2009 December) seems to indicate that the strip ran in three individual newspapers, not concurrently. However, I am told that it was syndicated and ran in many papers. See, for instance, here: http://winonalakekerrs.blogspot.com/2009/11/mafalda.html Unfortunately, that's a primary and non-notable source. Does anyone have a usable secondary or notable source for this information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonadab ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
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First volume cover, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.80.247.35 ( talk) 14:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Her name in IPA is wrong. In Spanish all the "a"s represent the same sound, always. -- ExperiencedArticleFixer ( talk) 23:37, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Who invented this "English" IPA for Mafalda? It's Mafalda, not Mafolda. That's completely wrong-- 82.37.67.151 ( talk) 22:07, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
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200.38.162.21 21:41, 12 March 2007 (UTC)I find it insanely funny that this article is rated as "Comics of unknown quality". Mafalda is the best known comic of all Latin America, of all time. This, of course, being America-centric wikipedia should be a clue of why nobody has ever heard of her. Here's an idea - not knowing about something doesn't make it any less important.
Regarding the following text from the entry: "She has occasionally been compared to Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown, most notably by Umberto Eco in 1968, for reasons Quino doesn't understand. This comparison has made publication of "Mafalda" in English difficult." It would be nice to know the reasons stated by Eco and by Quino. A reference would be nice, though I suspect where Eco might say something (I will look it up). An explanation of why this comparison has made publication in English difficult would be nice, I really do not understand this, quite on the contrary. --
Cangelis
14:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I googled to get the the following quote: "Since our children are soon to become through our choice a multitude of Mafaldas, it would be rash not to treat Mafalda with the respect a real person deserves." source http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_2000_July/ai_63845121 --Anonymous
I think it is worth mentioning the fact that Felipe is in love with the daughter of the pharmacist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.66.78.1 ( talk • contribs)
So is it pills or drops? I think in some strips it's implied that it's drops. Felipe, though, takes it as pills ("nervocalm grageas"). So which is it? :o) Vince In Milan 03:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Am I the only one wondering if words like "we´re screwed" and "bitching out" are really appropriate to 1960s 5 year olds. I´m not denying that they´re appropriate translations now but they wouldn't've been then and I´m wondering if we shouldn't keep that in mind.-- Shadebug 12:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
200.38.162.21 21:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)"Sonamos" is not "we are dreaming". It's "We sounded", a phrase that can't be translated. It basically means "We are in trouble". It doesn't mean "We are screwed".
You beat me to that... "we're dreaming" would be "soñamos", with a Ñ. I still agree that "we're screwed" is not correct, especially since "sonamos" is a rather old-fashioned way of saying "we're in trouble".
-- Damifb 16:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I´m surprised to see no reference to Guille´s intense posessiveness towards his mother, any reason for that?-- Shadebug 12:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
I was reading news from Clarin, and said that legislation had created a house of Mafalda in Buenos Aires. I was just wondering whether I was reading that correctly since my Spanish isn't that great, and whether it's important enough to be added in the mafalda page. 132.239.90.173 20:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't mention Mafalda's mother real name, which is Raquel. Mafalda does mention it once in early strips. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Juanchito2006 ( talk • contribs) 02:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC).
Why this article doesnt make mention to Mafalda's Dad? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.45.111.69 ( talk) 04:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
Shouldn't an article about Mafalda make reference to the fact that about 90% of the strips are political in nature? Let me give you the very best example (found on Mafalda 3) Miguelito is tip-toeing, and a bypasser asks Mafalda why that is, and she responds "Well, he's just found out that in the other half of the world, people are sleeping, so he doesn't want to wake them up" and then she ponders "He still hasn't figured out that in this world one half is incapable of hearing the other" making a reference to the bipolar political map of the sixties.
-- Damifb 16:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Many of the things mentioned in the section "Characters" are completely out of focus and in some cases downright wrong (eg. Mafalda's hate for James Bond ???). I'd like to make serious contribution to the article but I have to take into account two things beforehand...
i. Do the 12 small books offer sufficient knowledge of the characters and their evolution? I think they do, but after all the comic is not exactly character-specific... however I'd like to listen to somebody who has read more than the 12 books.
ii. How can we cite specific strips? Is there a general Wikipedia guideline? In this case we cannot use distinctive "marks", as there are no dates or titles.
If there's someone who can help me with these issues (especially the second one), I could attempt a big scale improvement within the next month. Daprof 01:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you both! I also want to correct myself, when I said "the comic is not exactly character-specific" I meant to write that it's not action-specific; it relies heavily on the characters, but rather on what they think and say instead of what they do, so it can't be very helpful for an encyclopedia article to mention traits that appeared 2 or 3 times (James Bond is a good example of this, or Guille's "crush on Brigitte Bardot", come on... this is stuff for a fan page or forum).
Cheers again. Daprof 11:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
As promised, I begun working on the article (so far I've only changed the intro a bit). I plan to try to embed "Trivia" in an "Overview" (will be tricky), do something about the citations, and heavily hack the characters section (have a look at french or spanish wikipedia to see what I mean). Daprof 12:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
...Mafalda's father was removed from the characters section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.137.40.236 ( talk) 03:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
"Mafalda La Pelicula" was released in Buenos Aires in 1981, but it was made in 1979 according to Cinecin. Amazon.com lists it as 1981 as well, and I think their information comes from Venevision. IMDB shows it as 1982, so I'm not sure. I went with the Cinecin citation. Mvblair ( talk) 22:46, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
The article as it stands (2009 December) seems to indicate that the strip ran in three individual newspapers, not concurrently. However, I am told that it was syndicated and ran in many papers. See, for instance, here: http://winonalakekerrs.blogspot.com/2009/11/mafalda.html Unfortunately, that's a primary and non-notable source. Does anyone have a usable secondary or notable source for this information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonadab ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
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First volume cover, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.80.247.35 ( talk) 14:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Her name in IPA is wrong. In Spanish all the "a"s represent the same sound, always. -- ExperiencedArticleFixer ( talk) 23:37, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Who invented this "English" IPA for Mafalda? It's Mafalda, not Mafolda. That's completely wrong-- 82.37.67.151 ( talk) 22:07, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
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