Macanudo (comic)
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| Macanudo | |
|---|---|
| Author | Liniers |
| Current status/schedule | Current |
| Launch date | 2002 |
| Syndicate(s) | (2018–present) |
| Publisher | La Nación |
| Genre(s) | 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[clarification needed]and deals with meta humor[citation needed]. It has been considered very popular.
In May 2025, it was announced an animated series based on the comic strip is currently in production.[6] The series will be produced by Mercury Filmworks and is slated for 2027 or 2028.
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 .[7]
- 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.
