Macanudo
Encyclopedia
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. It has been considered very popular.
Argentina
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daily comic strip
Comic strip
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by the cartoonist Liniers. It is published in the newspaper
Newspaper
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La Nación
La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper. The country's leading conservative paper, the centrist Clarín is its main competitor. It is the only newspaper in Argentina still published in broadsheet format.-Overview:...
. It appears on the last page of the paper. 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:- Enriqueta, a little girl Who reads a lot, and has a large imagination. The humor in her strip often results from real life contrasting with her imagination
- Madariaga, her teddy bearTeddy bearThe teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft, white cotton and have smooth and soft fur. It is an enduring form of a stuffed animal in many countries, often serving the purpose of entertaining children. In recent times, some teddy bears have become collector's items...
((often likened to catatoniaCatatoniaCatatonia is a state of neurogenic motor immobility, and behavioral abnormality manifested by stupor. It was first described in 1874: Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein ....
Bear - Fellini, her confidant, a sneaky black cat often likened to poe's short story The Black catThe Black Cat (short story)"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"...
- The man who translates movie titles, Who's comics often compare to reality.
- Z-25, the sensitive robot.
- The duendesDuende (mythology)A duende is a fairy- or goblin-like mythological creature from Iberian, Latin American and Filipino folklore. While its nature varies throughout Spain, Portugal, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking America and the Philippines, analogues from other cultures include the Danish-Norwegian Nisse, the...
(Elves), a group of fantastic creatures often likened to cause superstitions - Penguins, Compared to humanity on several occasions.
- Oliverio the Olive, Designed to imply aview of the world
- 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 anthropomorphizedAnthropomorphismAnthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s...
rabbit - Lorenzo and Teresita, a human couple
- Johnson and his friend Carlitos, a little blue bird
- Pablo Picasso
- Alfio, the troglodyte ball
- The hermit from the mountain
- José Luis, the unhappy man
- The cinephile cow
- Frogs
- Cows
- "People that wonder 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)