Macanudo is an Argentine daily comic strip by the cartoonist Liniers. It has been published since 2002 [1] in the newspaper La Nación. It appears on the last page of the paper. Macanudo is published in newspapers and book collections in several countries, such as Brazil,[2] Canada (Quebec),[3] Czech Republic, and Italy.[4] Since September 2018, the strip is distributed in English by King Features Syndicate.[5]
| Macanudo | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Liniers |
| Current status/schedule | Current |
| Launch date | 2002 |
| Syndicate(s) | (2018–present) |
| Publisher(s) | La Nación |
| Genre(s) | Humor, gag-a-day, satire, children |
Just like Liniers' previous strip, Bonjour, Macanudo is very experimental and deals with meta humor. It has been considered very popular.
Characters
editMacanudo generally follows a nonlinear plot line, but several characters frequently recur:
- Henrietta (Enriqueta), a little girl who reads a lot, and has a large imagination, her confidant Fellini, a sneaky black cat, and Mandelbaum (Madariaga), her teddy bear .[6]
- The Man who Translates Movie Titles.
- Z-25, the sensitive robot.
- The duendes (gnomes), a group of fantastic creatures often likened to cause superstitions.
- Huberta and Gudrun, forest-dwelling witches.
- Penguins, compared to humanity on several occasions.
- Oliverio the Olive,
- The boy Martin (Martincito) and his imaginary friend Olga, a blue furry monster.
- Yellow thing and Blue thing, two abstract beings that appear together
- The Mysterious Man in Black
- Liniers himself, both as a human and as an anthropomorphized rabbit
- Lorenzo and Teresita, a human couple
- Johnson and his friend Carlitos, a little blue bird
- Pablo Picasso
- La Guadalupe
- Alfio, the troglodyte ball
- The hermit from the mountain
- José Luis, the unhappy man
- The Cinephile Cow
- Frogs
- Aliens
- Cows
- "Gente que anda por ahi (People that wander around)", which may be considered a "segment" in which normal people named by their surnames perform normal activities.
Collected works
editMacanudo has been collected into 5 volumes published by Ediciones de la Flor:
- Macanudo Nº1 which collects the strips from June 2002 to November 2003 (April 2004)
- Macanudo Nº2 which collects strips published between 2003 and 2004 (April 2005)
- Macanudo Nº3 (April 2006)
- Macanudo Nº4 (December 2006)
- Macanudo Nº5 (October 2007)
Later volumes are published by Editorial Común:
- Macanudo Nº6 (2009)
- Macanudo Nº7 (2010)
- Macanudo Nº8 (2010)
- Macanudo Nº9 (2012)
- Macanudo Nº10 (2013)
- Macanudo Nº11 (2015)
- Macanudo Nº12 (2016)
- Macanudo Nº13 (2017)
After getting syndicated in the US, Fantagraphics began publishing the collected strips in English:[7]
- Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere (2022)
- Macanudo: Optimism is for the Brave (2023)
References
edit- ^ Liniers entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved Sept. 14, 2020.
- ^ "Zarabatana publica dois trabalhos de Liniers - UNIVERSO HQ". www.universohq.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). June 24, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ^ "Macanudo". www.du9.org (in French). Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ^ "DOUbLe SHOt presenta: Macanudo 4 di Liniers - anteprima - BadComics.it". BadComics.it (in Italian). September 7, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ^ "A huge Latin American cartoon hit aims to crack the U.S. market". Washington Post. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ^ Dueben, Alex (July 9, 2014). "REVIEWS- Macanudo 1". The Comics Journal. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
- ^ Garrity |, Shaenon. "Confusing for a Living: PW Talks with Liniers". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
External links
edit- Macanudo in La Nación
- Ediciones de la Flor, the publishers of the collected volumes
- macanudo
- liniers
- Official website
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