Ricardo Piglia used to ironically about the “Mafalda left” and suggest that Quino’s mythical creature was nothing more than a kind of rebellious but harmless social democrat. In the intellectuals of those years, ‘El Eternauta’, that amazing comic about an alien attack on the city of Buenos Aires, signed by the brilliant Héctor Oesterheld, perhaps one of the greatest adventure writers in my country, had more prestige, and then a Montonero militant murdered by the sinister Videla dictatorship. Beyond the political readings of both comics—some done with intelligence and others with partisan bad faith—both were very popular, they went around the world and today they are about to become two promising series. The Oscar winner, Juan José Campanella, will be in charge of ‘Malfalda’ and will do so with the same team of cartoonists with whom he made ‘Metegol’: Quino visited his fabulous animation factory a few years ago, and the author of ‘El secreto de ‘her eyes’ confesses that it was a very exciting moment, since she began reading her idol’s comic strip when she was barely eight years old: “There were strips that I didn’t understand, because Mafalda works on different levels,” she warns. It has white humor, but also transgressive notes that today could even be subject to cancellation. In 1969 it was fashionable to transgress. Today it is those same transgressors who monitor and cancel. Campanella says that he peppered his father with multiple doubts: “One day I asked him what ‘anti-Semitic’ meant; “I learned that word thanks to Quino, who greatly influenced my way of conceiving humor.” The animated series is being developed in MundoLoco CGI, and it is quite a challenge to invent new adventures for Mafalda, give movement to the endearing secondary characters and give voice to that legendary girl. Campanella also read ‘El Eternauta’ in his adolescence, which in Netflix will release a short film starring Ricardo Darín. This time the author of ‘The Bride’s Son’ has nothing to do with the science fiction series, directed by Bruno Stagnaro and which is an unprecedented blockbuster in these parts: the apocalypse can also occur in Argentina, which is an expert in economic cataclysms. The trailers show that despite the updates, the central idea of Oestherheld still stands: a widespread power outage, a strange corrosive and lethal snow, a devastation of the Earth, an alien invasion, and an organized resistance from the town with scenes that in The original took place on General Paz Avenue, which circles Buenos Aires; in the city center and in the Borges neighborhood of Palermo, and also in the River stadium, where a battle is being fought. Oestherheld, despite belonging to the most radicalized left-wing nationalism, was a great admirer of classic Hollywood films, and his work—drawn by the great Francisco Solano López—is full of struggles and heroism, but also of coded messages and details. that redefine its essential drama. Darín takes on this display: “As an actor I have never done anything like this in my entire life.” The magic that hung in Argentine kiosks in the 60s of the last century returns with the language of this time: the new industry is eager for genius. Because technology changes, but diamonds are eternal.
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