GoComics A to Z, Vol. 14: McArroni
by LucasIn this weekly series, editor Lucas Wetzel spotlights new and unusual comic features from the GoComics A-Z listing.
Feature: McArroni
Creator: Julian Loayza & Carmen Perez
Format: color illustration, various
Frequency: currently updates every Monday
Recommended if you like: a hybrid of Angry Birds and fine art with a Charlie Chaplin slapstick sensibility
I love comic strips with no words. Something about discovering their meaning or punchline without any verbal clues allows me to appreciate them more on an artistic level. And there's plenty of artistic integrity to the unusual McArroni comic, which has run on GoComics since 2012 and has been in existence since 2008. Animator Julian Loayza created the strip with his wife, Carmen, before moving to the United Arab Emirates to work in the coffee trade.
The strip stars a mischievous bird and his friend Amadeo, but there aren't really storylines as much as odd scenes and situations rendered in colorful, detailed drawings. In 2014, the creators of McArroni posted black-and-white drawings every day, and later that year experimented with collage and photoshop techniques. But it's the classic, colorful illustrations that best define McArroni, and which you can currently read every Monday on GoComics.