The Chronicle of the City in “Macanudo”, by Liniers: Relations Between Comics, Literature and Journalism

Abstract

This analysis presents a specific clipping of the 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 intends to show the existing dialogues between the newspaper strips and the news it reports, 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 how this narrative form functions, which links comics, literature, and journalism, four strips by the author are analyzed, in dialogue with theorists of these three specific fields, such as Antonio Candido (1980), Florencia Levin (2015), Josefina Ludmer (2013), Martín Caparrós (2012), and Oscar Masotta (2010).