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In The Ghost of Wreckers Cove by husband and wife team Liniers & Angelica Del Campo, a father and his two daughters move to an old New England house with an adjacent lighthouse for the summer. But soon the sisters discover that something supernatural may be afoot. Could the lighthouse be haunted? And if so, by who? And why? The Ghost of Wreckers Cove will be available from Mad Cave Studios imprint Papercutz at a local comic shop and/or bookstore near you beginning September 16th, 2025.
Surely, Liniers needs no introduction to readers of Comics Beat. He’s the internationally recognized cartoonist behind the comic strip Macanudo, which originally debuted in Linier’s home country of Argentina. In advance of the publication of The Ghost of Wreckers Cove, The Beat caught up with Liniers over email to learn more about the graphic novel.
AVERY KAPLAN: What was the origin of The Ghost of Wreckers Cove?
LINIERS: We were stuck at home during COVID and we decided we wanted to do something together. We had always both talked about a story in a lighthouse with a ghost at the center and we just began talking and the story was born.
KAPLAN: What is your collaborative process with your wife, Angelica Del Campo, like?
LINIERS: We do very separate things and we don’t generally interfere with the other one’s process. She will write the script and send it to me, and I will then draw based on the text. She doesn’t often describe very much so I have a lot of room to create the look and feel of the story.
KAPLAN: I’m curious how your work on the daily newspaper comic strip Macanudo affects your longer graphic novel work (if it does)?
LINIERS: They are very different kinds of work. The daily strip is the tight wire act of comics. It just has to come out whichever way. Whereas you have the time on a graphic novel for everything to be exactly the way you envision.
KAPLAN: Did any part of the story post a particular creative challenge for you?
LINIERS: Finding a way to narrate the flashbacks in a way that didn’t take you out of the story in the present and finding the visual language that fit with the tone of the story.
KAPLAN: Can you tell us about some of your inspirations for The Ghost of Wreckers Cove? Was Wreckers Cove based on a specific location?
LINIERS: We travel a lot to Maine and much of the inspiration comes from visits to different lighthouses. The woods and trails are mostly from where we live, in a small town in Vermont. And the library is our town library.
KAPLAN: Do you have any advice for young readers who may have cartooning aspirations?
LINIERS: Draw a lot and read things that aren’t comics. If you want to be a painter, you have to watch musicals, if you want to write novels you have to look at paintings.
KAPLAN: Have there been any comics, or any other kind of stories, that you have been especially enjoying lately?
LINIERS: Anything that has been created with emotional intelligence and not AI. I loved Monica, by Daniel Clowes, I enjoy my kids podcast by the great Adam Gidwitz. He knows how to talk about and tell scary stories in such a funny and engaging way. Also, The Eternaut. A story that I have been carrying with me since childhood and recently re read. A classic comic. Mafalda, my favourite comic strip, has just been published in English and I enjoyed seeing how translation affects a work of art that I know so well.
KAPLAN: Is there anything else you’d like me include?
LINIERS: The Ghost of Wrecker’s Cove is available for preorder now, and available wherever books are sold on September 16th!
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