MACANUDO The Way of the Penguin

Brilliant! A wonderful all-new new 3rd volume! In full color, Liniers (Ricardo Siri's) hilarious tales of whimsy, fantasy and child characters. Calvin and Hobbes meets The Far Side! Cartoons of the awkwardness of zoom calls, witches frustrated at the Netflix lag on their crystal balls, children reading to cats, penguins imagining the impossibility of alien life, imaginary friends romping in the forest, horror-movie characters looking for friends… Liniers mixes his repertory cast with one-offs. Handsome, landscape-format hardcover (matching the first two) with debossed covers showcases Liniers’ beautiful, full-color cartooning in the way it deserves. The influence of Krazy Kat and Mutts extends beyond the tone, charm and humanity of the content to formal playfulness, and these books are the best way to appreciate the full range of the work. Macanudo is an Argentine daily comic strip (printed in full color!) by the cartoonist Liniers. It has been published since 2002 in the newspaper La Nación. Macanudo is being published in newspapers and book collections in Brazil, Canada (Quebec), Czech Republic, Italy and the U.S. Since September 2018, the strip has been distributed in English by King Features Syndicate. Fantagraphics Books, here in the U.S., has published three collections: Welcome to Elsewhere (2022), Optimism is for the Brave (2023) and now this new one in 2024. Just like Liniers' previous strip, Bonjour, Macanudo is very experimental and deals with meta humor. It is very popular. "Fans of Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz will immediately recognize a similar spirit of mischief, whimsy and philosophical inquiry in this internationally acclaimed comic strip that the Argentine cartoonist Liniers has been drawing since 2002. But unlike Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts, Macanudo features a revolving cast of characters who inhabit their own distinct worlds. ... Daydreaming kids with an appreciation for quirk will find plenty to delight them and to ponder." — The New York Times