Argentine writer-director Juan José Campanella, a 2010 Oscar winner for The Secret in Their Eyes, confirmed via Instagram on Friday that he will helm a new series based on Mafalda, the iconic comic strip by the late Joaquín Salvador Lavado (Quino).

First published in 1963, Mafalda follows the travails of a precocious, outspoken girl from a middle-class family in San Telmo while offering biting social commentary. A politically-aware humanist — and fervent Beatles-fan — Mafalda........

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