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Sock Monkey: The Glass Door Knob
The Sock Monkey and the other toys in the house marvel at the prismatic spectrum shining on the parlor floor. They notice that the dazzling colors are somehow emanating from the beautiful glass doorknob on the front door. Winter turns to Spring, and the apple tree at the front of the house sprouts its new leaves, casting a warm green shadow on the door. But something happe...more
Paperback, 40 pages
Published
September 20th 2002
by Dark Horse Comics
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Aw, this is tremendous. As usual with Tony Millionaire, the art is absolutely out of this world, something like Winsor McKay, something like R. Crumb, something like nothing else but Tony Millionaire. I don't know who does the color work in this; I don't think it's Millionaire, since he normally has colorists work on his other Sock Monkey stuff, but whoever it is is a genius.
The stories--there are two in the book, running concurrently, both the main story and a story told in tiny car...more
The stories--there are two in the book, running concurrently, both the main story and a story told in tiny car...more
Millionare's draftsmanship is, as always, brilliant. Its sort of shocking how easily the drunken, violent world of Mr. Crow and Sock Monkey translates to an innocent children's books, though I suppose that "irresponsible" and "innocent" are flip-sides of the same coin. That said, the work is merely cute, as dampening Millionare's acerbic witt to get a book that could be read to a child without scarring them for life deprives the book of much of why I love his comics in the ...more
Too children's booky. I mean. There are children's books that have a strong, simple message that can be appreciated by everyone. But this was about a sock monkey and a glass doorknob.
That's it.
Really.
That's it.
Really.
I honestly don't know what to think of this book. As far as I can tell it's a book about nothing. But the pictures were nice.
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Tony Millionaire was born in Boston and grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, by the sea. He attended the Massachusetts College of Art for three and three quarters of a year and resigned.
He writes and draws the ongoing adventures of Sock Monkey, published by Dark Horse Comics since 1998.
He is the creator of the syndicated comic strip, Maakies, which has run in weekly newspa...more
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He writes and draws the ongoing adventures of Sock Monkey, published by Dark Horse Comics since 1998.
He is the creator of the syndicated comic strip, Maakies, which has run in weekly newspa...more
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