Macanudo (comic) explained

Macanudo
Author:	Liniers
Status:	Current
Syndicate:	(2018–present)
Publisher:	La Nación
Genre:	Humor, gag-a-day, satire, children

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]

Just like Liniers' previous strip, Bonjour, Macanudo is very experimental and deals with meta humor. It has been considered very popular.

Characters

Macanudo 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

Macanudo 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)

External links

• Macanudo in La Nación
• Ediciones de la Flor, the publishers of the collected volumes
• macanudo
• liniers
• Official website

Notes and References

1. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/liniers.htm Liniers entry
2. Web site: Zarabatana publica dois trabalhos de Liniers - UNIVERSO HQ. www.universohq.com. June 24, 2015. pt-BR. 2018-09-11.
3. Web site: Macanudo. www.du9.org. fr-FR. 2018-09-11.
4. News: DOUbLe SHOt presenta: Macanudo 4 di Liniers - anteprima - BadComics.it. 2015-09-07. BadComics.it. 2018-09-11. it-IT.
5. News: A huge Latin American cartoon hit aims to crack the U.S. market. Washington Post. en. 2018-09-11.
6. Web site: REVIEWS- Macanudo 1. 9 July 2014. 9 July 2014. The Comics Journal. Dueben. Alex.
7. Web site: Garrity . Shaenon . Confusing for a Living: PW Talks with Liniers . 2024-08-09 . PublishersWeekly.com . en.