Liniers

In English for the first time, these comic strips from the Argentinian artist Liniers are poetic, inventive, absurd and funny.

What happens while you're sleeping? Your toys go out to play!

Sea Gypsy: Cathy Bissette flees to the North Carolina shore, where a brash, young writer threatens to unsettle her feelings. Golden Lasso: Jan Warren attempts to resist her neighbor, Derek Bannon, as he plots to take over her small, struggling ranch.

"Matilda promises her little sister Clemmie an amazing weekend spent playing outside. But the weather's rainy and Clemmie can't bring her new balloon along. Matilda teaches Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday"-- Matilda promises her little sister, Clemmie, an amazing weekend spent playing outside. But the weather's rainy and Clemmie doesn't want to go outside. Matilda teaches Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday.

Un entomólogo japonés que mantiene una peculiar relación con la comida (su prima murió de anorexia y su primo se convirtió en un destacado luchador de sumo), y cuya familia aún se rige por los antiguos preceptos japoneses, decide por voluntad propia dejar de comer después de un extraño sueño que tiene una noche. A partir de este sueño empieza a recordar distintos sucesos inexplicables que comenzaron la primera vez que viajó a África. Este relato de Bellatin, adaptado por Liniers y por el propio narrador, posee un aroma pesadillesco e inquietante, que lo convierte en un diamante singular en el mundo del cómic A Japanese entomologist who has a peculiar relationship with food (his cousin died of anorexia and his cousin became a prominent sumo wrestler), and whose family is still governed by ancient Japanese precepts, voluntarily decides to stop eating after a strange dream that he has one night. After this dream he begins to remember different inexplicable events that began the first time he traveled to Africa. This Bellatin story, adapted by Liniers and by the narrator himself, has a nightmarish and disturbing flavor, which makes it a unique gem in the world of comics.

"When Henrietta's mother gives her a box of colored pencils, she sets out to draw a terrifying and fantastic adventure"--

After his parents say "goodnight," turn off his lights, and close his door, a young boy imagines creatures coming out of the dark ceiling above his bed.