Poste San Marino devotes this issue to the star of Quino’s famous comic strip
SAN MARINO, 5 June 2024 – The Philatelic and Numismatic Division of the San Marino Post Office is once again issuing stamps celebrating comic strips. This time it is an important birthday to commemorate, that of Mafalda, created by Argentinean Joaquín Salvador Lavado, aka Quino, who first appeared in 1964 in a weekly magazine. The little Mafalda has become world-famous for being a defiant protester in the most authentic sense of the word, posing profound questions with a spontaneity that only children possess, but expressing fulminating considerations with a mature insight. This is the great strength of a character who never grows old, a rebellious spirit frozen at the turbulent age of six.
The sheet contains three values of 1.40 euro, which reproduce as many vignettes showing Mafalda conversing in Spanish with her teddy bear in her arms, taken from a comic strip.
Each value is completed by “1.40”, the inscription “San Marino” and the Republic’s coat of arms. The inscription “Mafalda60”, a short text about Mafalda, an illustration of Mafalda with the comic strip “Basta!”, the credits “© sucesores de Joaquín S. Lavado (Quino)”, the translation of the cartoons’ dialogue into Italian, the year 2024 and the site www.dfn.sm are on the background of the sheet.
Date of issue: 15 June 2024
Values: No. 3 values of 1.40 euros. Sheetlet
Run: 20,000 sheetlets
Printing: Four-color offset, a Pantone and fluorescent yellow invisible ink by Cartor Security Printing
Perforation: 13 ½ x 13 ½
Stamp size: 40 x 44 mm
Sheet size: 137 x 101 mm
Credits: © sucesores de Joaquín S. Lavado (Quino)
