Macanudo #1

"Everyone can draw a cat, everyone can draw a little girl or a man with a hat, but not everyone can make that cat, that little girl, or that man with a hat so different from the ones we have seen before that they become a part of the world as if they were real. Liniers draws characters and his characters are 'macanudos' (good guys). He draws them so well that they all are cute, even the ugly ones are so perfectly ugly that they are beautiful."—Libraria Santa Fe In Macanudo, Ricardo Siri Liniers uses crayon, ink, and watercolor with incredible skill to render an entire world that is poetic, absurd, emotionally expressive, and full of surprises. Anything and everything about our world can find its way into Macanudo, but it will have passed through Liniers's particular filter, and it thus will have been rendered funny, beautiful, and incredibly sympathetic. Ricardo Siri Liniers was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he now lives with his wife and two daughters. For more than ten years he has published an enormously popular daily strip, Macanudo, in Argentina's largest daily newspaper, La Nacion. Up until now, nine collections of the strip have been published in Argentina. He also travels around the world drawing on stage with musician Kevin Johansen. His work has been published very successfully in nine countries, including Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. His first book to be published in the United States was The Big Wet Balloon (September 2013). Mara Faye Lethem has translated novels by David Trueba, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Idelfonso Falcones, Javier Calvo, Patricio Pron, Marc Pastor, and Pablo De Santis, among others. Her translations have appeared in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, the Paris Review, and McSweeney’s.