Google honoured Quino the company's founder

The design honours Mendoza-born cartoonist Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejón, who was born 90 years ago

Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejón, also known as Quino, was born 90 years ago, and 90 years later, Google dedicates a doodle—an artistic intervention—to him in the search engine's logo to pay tribute to him and explain his artistic legacy.

People can find the black-and-white photo of Mafalda's author that is displayed in 25 nations, from Brazil to Sweden, and that is meant to evoke his comic strips.

Julieta Colombo, a niece and legatee of Quino's work, said: "I celebrate this honour from Google to Quino and his work, both Mafalda and his Graphic Humor sites, to which my uncle spent 60 years of his life.

Additionally, he continued, it "offers lifetime readers the satisfaction of paying homage to one of their favourite authors and allows future generations to explore and discover who this author is and what he done."

The Argentine artist Azul Portillo created the doodle, interventions that can be seen in the logo when accessing the Google home page, who did it in black and white to evoke her comic strips, with an inspiration in the self-portraits of the artist and important parts of the Mafalda world.

Azul Portillo, an Argentine artist, was in responsible of creating this doodle. She claimed she was motivated by how he portrayed himself in his self-portraits: focused, working on a desk covered in sheets, pencils, and a lamp.

In addition to Argentina, 25 other nations, including Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Sweden, and Venezuela, are showing the tribute to the renowned Argentine cartoonist and humorist.

Drawing was his most expressive medium, thus I wanted to show him creating the iconic universe we are familiar with. I was motivated to study his self-portraits and observe how he portrayed himself: focused, working at a desk covered in sheets, pencils, and his lamp, "explained Portillo.

Added him: "I always pictured this sketch in black and white. On the other hand, I feel that I can reflect my mark as an artist since austerity in colour is one of my favourite tools when drawing. It felt like a trait that instantly reminds Quino's strips.

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