Macanudo is an Argentine daily comic strip by the cartoonist Liniers. It has been published since 2002 [1] in the newspaperLa 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
"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.
