La crónica-historieta en Macanudo, de Liniers

Abstract

this analysis presents a specific cut of comic strips by Argentine comics artist Ricardo Siri, known as Liniers, that compose the series Macanudo, published since 2002 in the pages of the newspaper La Nación. Although the series is predominantly based on humoristic situations, this selection is intended to show the existing dialogs between the newspaper strips and the news reported by it, under the critical eye of the author, who has a point of view that is sometimes divergent from the one exposed by the mainstream media. In order to understand the functioning of this narrative form, which links comics, literature, and journalism, four strips by the author are analyzed, dialoguing with theorists of these three specific fields, such as Antônio Cândido (1980), Florencia Levin (2015), Josefina Ludmer (2013), Martín Caparrós (2012), and Oscar Masotta (2010), among others.