Macanudo

"Macanudo" is an Argentine daily comic strip by the cartoonist Liniers. It is published in the newspaper "La Nación". It appears on the last page of the paper. Just like Liniers' previous strip, "Bonjour", Macanudo is very experimental and deals with meta humor.

Characters

"Macanudo" generally follows a nonlinear plot line, but several characters frequently recur:
*Enriqueta, a little girl
*Madariaga, her teddy bear
*Fellini, her cat and confidant
*The man who translates movie titles
*Z-25, the sensitive robot
*The duendes, a group of fantastic creatures
*Penguins
*Oliverio the Olive
*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, a little blue bird
*Pablo Picasso
*Alfio, the troglodyte ball
*The hermit from the mountain
*The man that waits

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)

External links

* [http://www.lanacion.com.ar/Varios/GaleriaImagenes/GaleriaHumor.asp?categoria_id=1383 Macanudo in La Nación]
* [http://www.edicionesdelaflor.com.ar/index.php Ediciones de la Flor, the publishers of the collected volumes]
* [http://autoliniers.blogspot.com/ macanudo]
* [http://macanudoliniers.blogspot.com/ liniers]
* [http://www.porliniers.com/ oficial site]