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Virtual Memories Show 331: Liniers<\/a><\/p>\n

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“In my mind, I thought, ‘Maybe if I can get my comic strip to Uruguay, my father will believe this is a real job.’ I’d be an international success. Montevideo was as far as my imagination could go.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>In a rollicking conversation at the Society of Illustrators 128 Bar & Bistro<\/a>, Argentine comics star Liniers<\/a> talks about making the jump from Buenos Aires to Vermont to teach at the Center for Cartoon Studies, the amazing US syndication launch of his comic strip Macanudo<\/a> last year (and the origin of that strip in Argentina), the difference between drawing well and drawing funny, the mix of comic and comedic influences that melted his brain as a kid, the time he almost<\/em> met Bill Watterson, and what it means to be a Latin American cartoonist. We also get into how he learned English from Mad Magazine<\/em>, when he caught the live performance bug, why he eschews a regular set of characters in favor of a schizophrenic style of humor in Macanudo<\/em>, how he felt the first time he saw a tattoo his work on a fan, why seeing his work pirated helped balance out his karma from downloading all those mp3s, and how his kids books help him press Pause on perfect moments from his children’s lives. Give it a listen!<\/a>\u00a0(conversation begins around 7:00)<\/em> And go buy some of Liniers’\u00a0Macanudo<\/em> collections<\/a> and his TOON books<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Every cartoonist, this life is their second choice. My first choice, I wanted to be Lou Reed, but that didn’t work out for some reason.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n