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Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere

Welcome to Elsewhere
By Liniers
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In the vein of beloved comics like Calvin & Hobbes and Krazy Kat, Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere by Liniers blends a whimsical cast including children, talking animals, imaginary monsters, and sensitive robots. The strips navigate gags, philosophy, nature musings, and surreal flights of fancy with delicate penwork and soft watercolours. Featuring jokes about domestic life, historic what-ifs, and playful pop-culture nods, this collection showcases Liniers' unique and off-kilter perspective, making it a joyous and inventive comic experience.

Originating in Buenos Aires in 2002 and gaining international acclaim, this volume is the first in a series collecting the groundbreaking Macanudo strips.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy insightful, humorous, and artistically diverse graphic novels, especially fans of classic and contemporary comic strips with a philosophical and surreal edge.

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Fantagraphics is proud to present Argentine cartoonist Liniers' internationally-acclaimed newspaper comic strip in a new English-language collection.

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In the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes, Mutts, and Krazy Kat, Liniers (Ricardo Siri) uses a shifting cast of children, talking animals, imaginary monsters, sensitive robots, occasional elves, and anthropomorphised objects to perform gags, philosophise, muse on nature, and engage in surreal, artistic flights of fancy.

With delicate, calligraphic pen work and understated watercolours, the comic skips lightly from style to style and subject to subject, as Liniers allows his imagination and observational humour free reign. Jokes about domestic life, imagined scenarios of historical figures, Cthulu showing up to Tinder dates, characters simply enjoying a pastoral sunset, and the puncturing of pop-culture stalwarts: Macanudo is a boundless canvas for its author's humane and delightfully off-kilter view of the world, in a way few comic strips have ever even attempted.

Beginning in 2002 in Buenos Aires, Macanudo steadily gained popularity around the world, appearing in US newspapers since 2018. Welcome to Elsewhere is the first of a series of volumes collecting Liniers' groundbreaking strip.

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Macanudo is celebrated for its charm and wit, with Jeff Smith of Bone praising its whimsical and clever observations alongside genuinely funny drawings. Gabriel Bá of Umbrella Academy lauds the strip's intelligent simplicity, calling it a powerful daily comic and a perfect fusion reminiscent of Bill Watterson and Quino.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683965565

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Matt Groening

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 186.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 216

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About the Author

Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Liniers (Ricardo Siri) became a daily cartoonist at 28 almost by accident, when other Argentine newspaper cartoonists had decamped to Spain at the nadir of a recession. He saw his role on the last page of La Nacion as offering a respite from dour news, but the strip's whimsy and humanity quickly led Macanudo to expand to papers across Latin America, and eventually beyond to Europe and North America. Three of Liniers' children's books have been published in the US, with Good Night, Planet, winning the comics industry Eisner Award for Best Publication For Early Readers in 2018. He currently lives in Vermont. Matt Groening (b. 1954) is an Emmy Award-winner, best known for co-creating animated TV series such as The Simpsons and Futurama. He also created the long-running alt-weekly strip Life In Hell for which he won a Reuben Award (2002) by the National Cartoonist Society.

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