Anita Diminuta

Anita Diminuta is a Spanish comics character created in 1941 by Jesús Blasco for the feminine magazine Mis Chicas, where it held the forefront throughout the decade.

Originally a strip in the vein of Percy Crosby's Skippy, the character became a globe trotting and time-travelling boy adventurer, casually handling firearms and hot wiring sports cars, and romancing adult women.

Blasco's art veered from cute animal cartoons to the shadow play realism of Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles.

Anita Diminuta was a blonde and orphan girl with braids that faced numberless hazards and horrible enemies like witches, wizards, octopuses and other dark animals.

For Salvador Vázquez de Parga, its graphism reflects influences from Arthur Rackham and William Heath Robinson.