[1] She also worked as a graphic illustrator for Argentine magazines and newspapers, as well as publishers specialized in school texts.

[3] In 1993, Para Ti -a leading Argentine women's magazine- approached her to do a weekly humor page.

[3] This strip is currently published in several Argentine newspapers such as La Voz del Interior (Córdoba) and Los Andes (Mendoza).

[3] Unlike many fellow Argentine humourists (such as Quino in Mafalda, Caloi, Roberto Fontanarrosa or Miguel Rep [es]), who rely on their characters' circumstances, Maitena focuses on the inner feelings of the female world.

Her father, Carlos Burundarena [es], was a Basque-stock conservative academician, the last Minister of Education (Argentina) of the Argentine dictatorship of the 1980s (he was previously chancellor of the National Technological University).