Mundo Quino Comic Strip

Below is a Quino comic strip I found particularly interesting. It illustrates Quino's cerebral social commentary using only symbolism and imagery to guide the reader. As Quino mentioned in his interview with Lucía Iglesias Kuntz, he prefers to let images speak in his work as a stand-alone product whenever possible.

In the strip he makes an allusion to Rodin's famed sculpture the thinker, this image is juxtaposed against modern technology from our new industrial society, in the form of a "super computer". Further, the strip details the old world human "thinker" being abandoned and carried away, while the piece of modern technology is being worked on by one man and admired by two others, effectively replacing the sculpture with modern technology.

I think the social commentary Quino is making in this comic strip is that old world values of human thought and creativity are being replaced by man's zeal for technology and industrial automation in the capitalist economy. In essence, man is losing the ability to think creatively and critically due to a reliance on modern technology to do the thinking for us.