Mafalda´s  50th  Birthday in 2014

Mafalda was first published on September 29th, 1964 in Primera Plana Magazine. For Quino, that is the day Mafalda was born as a strip character.

Any other birthday calculation is wrong.

The misunderstanding is due to the fact that in one of Quino´s strips, published (on March 15th, 1966) in El Mundo Newspaper, she would have been born in 1960 and that in the biography published ( on June 2nd, 1968) in Siete Días Magazine it reads: she was born ´in real life´ on March 15th, 1962.  Neither one date, nor the other is to be taken into account.

To think of a chronology for a strip character is difficult, Mafalda is still a girl and will always be. This is the reason why Quino considers Mafalda´s birthday to be the day of her first publication in the graphic media, i.e September 29th, 1964.
We will celebrate in two years.