Mafalda was written by Quino, pseudonym of Joaquin Salvador Lavado,
from Argentina. And I say "was" because unfortunately Quino decided
to discontinue Mafalda 20 years ago after about 10 years of delighting
us through newspapers and magazines. As you can notice, the comic is
quite old, but nevertheless very uptodate (one can eg replace Vietnam
by Iraq or Yugoslavia or whatever). Mafalda was translated to many
languages, I know of versions in German, Greek, English, Chinese, etc.
* 30 anios despues de su nacimiento, Mafalda entrara en las
escuelas en caracter de personaje de interes educativo y su
historia completa debera estar presente en cada biblioteca
escolar de Capital Federal (De Interlink Headline News No. 114).