Mafalda in Montreal

 My blogging friend Debra from She Who Seeks kindly sent me recently this bit of news from Montreal: Mafalda, one of my favourite cartoon characters, will have her own statue in Montreal. It will be the very first non Spanish speaking city to erect one. (Eat your heart out, Paris!) Furthermore, and I think it is important to my readers to know, is that she is finally getting a proper English translation. Because while Mafalda is extremely famous in the hispanic world, being from Argentina and all, and in the francophone world, thanks to... Well, I guess good translators, but I can safely say that the forever six-year-old Argentinian little lady connected with a lot of people from my generation. I blogged about her time and again in French, so I will try to keep it short here. I love Mafalda because she is a humanist, because she is uncompromising, because she questions and challenges the adult world and is never afraid to speak her mind. She has a temper, she is wise beyond her years, yet in the same time she remains sensitive, like a child should be. So yeah, I am so very happy that Montreal is going to have a monument to her. Welcome to my city, little lady.