Macanudo

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]

For the cigar brand, see Macanudo (cigar).
For the album by Ahmad Jamal, see Macanudo (album).

Macanudo
Author(s)Liniers
Current status/scheduleCurrent
Launch date2002 (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

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)

References
  1. Liniers entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved Sept. 14, 2020.
  2. "Zarabatana publica dois trabalhos de Liniers - UNIVERSO HQ". www.universohq.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  3. "Macanudo". www.du9.org (in French). Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  4. "DOUbLe SHOt presenta: Macanudo 4 di Liniers - anteprima - BadComics.it". BadComics.it (in Italian). September 7, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  5. https://www.facebook.com/comicriffs. "A huge Latin American cartoon hit aims to crack the U.S. market". Washington Post. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  6. Dueben, Alex (July 9, 2014). "REVIEWS- Macanudo 1". The Comics Journal. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
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