Maitena Burundarena
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Maitena Burundarena better known as Maitena, is an Argentine
cartoonist
.
She also worked as a graphic illustrator for Argentine magazines and newspapers, as well as publishers specialized in school texts. She was also a TV screenwriter, restaurateur and bar owner.
Her first strip, Flo, was published in Tiempo Argentino, a Buenos Aires newspaper. Her work was compiled in a book called Y en este rincón, las mujeres.
-a leading Argentine women's magazine- approached her to do a weekly humor page. Such was the origin of Mujeres Alteradas ("Women on the Edge"), a comic strip now published widely throughout the world. In 1999, Mujeres Alteradas was 'translated' from Argentine Spanish to European Spanish and started appearing in El País Semanal, the Sunday edition of El País, from Madrid. Mujeres Alteradas has been translated into several languages.
The strips have been collected into five books published by Lumen in Spain and Sudamericana, in Argentina. Mujeres Alteradas has sold 150,000 books just in Argentina.
´s humor section, under the name Superadas. This strip is currently published in several Argentine newspapers such as La Voz del Interior
(Córdoba
) and Los Andes (Mendoza
). The strip is also published in several other international newspapers.
Towards the end of 2002, selected strips were published as a book named Superadas 1.
In June 2003, Maitena began to publish the Sunday strip Curvas peligrosas in the La Nación.
in Mafalda
, Caloi, Roberto Fontanarrosa
or Rep), who rely on their characters' circumstances, Maitena focuses on the inner feelings of the female world.
(maitena is Basque for "the most beloved") and Polish ancestry.
Her father, Carlos Burundarena, was a Basque-stock conservative academician, the last minister of education of the Argentine dictatorship
of the 1980s (he was previously chancellor of the National Technological University). Her mother was an architect with Polish ancestry.
Maitena lives in Argentina and Uruguay
. She is married and has three children, aged 26, 24 and six.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
.
Early works
Maitena drew erotic strips for several European publications such as Makoki, in Barcelona. In Argentina, she worked in Sex Humor, Fierro, Humor, and Cerdos y Peces.She also worked as a graphic illustrator for Argentine magazines and newspapers, as well as publishers specialized in school texts. She was also a TV screenwriter, restaurateur and bar owner.
Her first strip, Flo, was published in Tiempo Argentino, a Buenos Aires newspaper. Her work was compiled in a book called Y en este rincón, las mujeres.
Mujeres Alteradas
In 1993, Para TiPara Ti
Para Ti is Juan Luis Guerra's Ninth album. Theres a change in his lyrics because they no longer involve his culture or nationality, it involves more his religious faith with songs like "Las Avispas" and "Mi padre me Ama"...
-a leading Argentine women's magazine- approached her to do a weekly humor page. Such was the origin of Mujeres Alteradas ("Women on the Edge"), a comic strip now published widely throughout the world. In 1999, Mujeres Alteradas was 'translated' from Argentine Spanish to European Spanish and started appearing in El País Semanal, the Sunday edition of El País, from Madrid. Mujeres Alteradas has been translated into several languages.
The strips have been collected into five books published by Lumen in Spain and Sudamericana, in Argentina. Mujeres Alteradas has sold 150,000 books just in Argentina.
Superadas
Between 1998 and 2003, Maitena also published a daily comic panel in La NaciónLa Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper. The country's leading conservative paper, the centrist Clarín is its main competitor. It is the only newspaper in Argentina still published in broadsheet format.-Overview:...
´s humor section, under the name Superadas. This strip is currently published in several Argentine newspapers such as La Voz del Interior
La Voz del Interior
La Voz del Interior is a daily Spanish language newspaper edited and published in Córdoba, capital of the province of Córdoba, Argentina and the second-largest city in the country...
(Córdoba
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...
) and Los Andes (Mendoza
Mendoza, Argentina
Mendoza is the capital city of Mendoza Province, in Argentina. It is located in the northern-central part of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, on the eastern side of the Andes. As of the , Mendoza's population was 110,993...
). The strip is also published in several other international newspapers.
Towards the end of 2002, selected strips were published as a book named Superadas 1.
In June 2003, Maitena began to publish the Sunday strip Curvas peligrosas in the La Nación.
A General Feature of Maitena's Work
Unlike many fellow Argentine humourists (such as QuinoQuino
Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino is an Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip Mafalda is very popular in Latin America and many parts of Europe.-Early life and work:...
in Mafalda
Mafalda
Mafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino. The strip features a 6-year-old girl named Mafalda, who is deeply concerned about humanity and world peace and rebels against the current state of the world...
, Caloi, Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa was an Argentine cartoonist and writer. He created the characters Inodoro Pereyra, a fictional gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a fictional serial killer.-Early life:...
or Rep), who rely on their characters' circumstances, Maitena focuses on the inner feelings of the female world.
Personal life
She is of BasqueBasque people
The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...
(maitena is Basque for "the most beloved") and Polish ancestry.
Her father, Carlos Burundarena, was a Basque-stock conservative academician, the last minister of education of the Argentine dictatorship
National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process was the name used by its leaders for the military government that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In Argentina it is often known simply as la última junta militar or la última dictadura , because several of them existed throughout its history.The Argentine...
of the 1980s (he was previously chancellor of the National Technological University). Her mother was an architect with Polish ancestry.
Maitena lives in Argentina and Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
. She is married and has three children, aged 26, 24 and six.
Published works
- Women on the Edge 1
- Women on the Edge 2
- Women on the Edge 3
- Women on the Edge 4
- Women on the Edge 5
- Curvas Peligrosas 1
- Curvas Peligrosas 2
- Superadas 1
- Superadas 2
- Superadas 3
External links
- Official page
- Burundarena, Maitena at the Spanish-language Auñamendi Encyclopedia.
- Interview for EuskoNews & Media (Nº 309 - 2005/07/15-22) by Julia López. Spanish language with RealMediaRealMediaRealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. Its extension is ".rm". It is typically used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio and is used for streaming content over the Internet....
audio and Basque translation.