Maitena Burundarena
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Maitena Burundarena (born on May 1, 1962 in Buenos Aires), better known as Maitena, is an Argentine cartoonist.
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[edit] Early works
A self-made artist, Maitena started out drawing 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 Argentinian magazines and newspapers, as well as publishing houses specializing in school texts. for a while, she was a TV screenwriter, restauranteur 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.
[edit] Mujeres Alteradas
In 1994, Para Ti -a leading Argentinian 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 over 300,000 books just in Argentina.
[edit] Superadas
Between 1998 and 2003, Maitena also published a daily comic panel in La Nación's humor section, under the name Superadas. This strip is currently published in several Argentinian 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 published a Sunday strip in the Revista La Nación.
[edit] A General Feature of Maitena's Work
Unlike many fellow Argentine humourists (such as Quino in Mafalda, Caloi, Roberto Fontanarrosa or Rep), Maitena work has never relied on a fictional context: most of it is only about anonymous characters restricted to a single frame.
[edit] Personal life
She is of Basque (maitena is Basque for "the most beloved") and Polish ancestry. His father was a Basque-stock conservative academician, the last minister of education of the Argentinian junta of the 1980s (previously the rector of National Technological University) and a probable reason that the HUMOR magazine wasn't forcibly closed by the dictatorship. Her mother was an architect with Polish ancestry. Maitena lives in Argentina and Uruguay. She is married and has three kids, aged 26, 24 and 6.
[edit] 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
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[edit] External link
- 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 RealMedia audio and Basque translation.
