Liniers, Star Wars meets the Far Side

Liniers (real name Ricardo Siri) is an Argentine cartoonist best known for the daily strip Macanudo. His work is smart, weird, whimsical, occasionally philosophical—and often laugh-out-loud funny. It has that rare quality of feeling both completely absurd and oddly insightful at the same time. If you’re a fan of Patrick McDonnell and Mutts, you’ll feel right at home… just with a slightly more surreal, international twist.

When people say a piece of art “speaks to you,” this is exactly what they mean.

It’s a good thing I happened to see it right when it went up for sale at San Diego Comic-Con last year, because I’m pretty sure someone else with similarly… let’s call them “oddball”… sensibilities would’ve grabbed it fast.

Fantagraphics has been reprinting Liniers’ work here in the U.S.—three volumes so far—and they’re absolutely worth owning. King Features Syndicate distributes the strip to newspapers, though those, sadly, are getting scarcer by the year.

Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to eventually seeing this one turn up in print in a future collection.

May the Farce be with you. (Sorry. Not sorry.)