Seven Days with Liniers
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The new issue of Seven Days profiles Macanudo cartoonist Ricardo Liniers Siri.
Remarkably little seems to happen in “Macanudo,” the daily comic strip created by Ricardo Liniers Siri, the Argentine cartoonist known professionally as Liniers. If you were forced to describe any given Liniers strip purely in terms of plot, you would end up saying things like: A ladybug lands. A man runs across a field with great purpose, then forgets what he wanted to say. An elf sings Van Morrison. Sometimes, it rains.
Liniers’ comics appear in newspapers in eight countries, including Brazil, Canada, India and Finland, and circulate in some 120 publications across the U.S.; he has also drawn covers for the New Yorker and written and illustrated nine books for children. Since 2016, he has produced his body of work from his home in the woods of Norwich, where he lives with his wife, Angelica del Campo, and their three daughters.
Chelsea Edgar’s four page Liniers profile is available on the internet at the Seven Days site here.
In addition to producing “Macanudo,” Liniers has drawn half a dozen covers for the New Yorker. His books for young readers include Good Night, Planet, which won an Eisner Award, cartooning’s most prestigious honor, in 2018. His most recent children’s book, The Ghost of Wreckers Cove, coauthored with del Campo, came out in September; together, the couple also run an imprint called Editorial Común, which publishes graphic novels in Argentina. [links added]
But the daily strip is still Liniers’ main creative project, often superseding other worldly concerns…
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