I've seen people comparing Quino to Calvin & Hobbes and Gary Larson's Farside. Quino is very different from both. I prefer his non-Mafalda work. In there he hi

I've seen people comparing Quino to Calvin & Hobbes and Gary Larson's Farside. Quino is very different from both. I prefer his non-Mafalda work. In there he his a lot more visual than those American authors. He is almost non-verbal. Also, I find his "magic realism" to be more in tune with the classic Latin American writers of his age (Borges, Marquez, Cortazar). I say it because, unlike Larson's absurdity and Calvin's dreams, his fantasies are still strongly tied to reality, they're a comment about reality, not just imaginary for the sake of it. He is the far opposite of escapism.