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Sock Monkey #2
The Collected Works of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey
This book collects Eisner Award winner Tony Millionaire's latest four comic books including the scandalous issue in which Uncle Gabby is so distraught over the accidental killing of a baby bird that he attempts suicide. The evolution of the Sock Monkey is evident in these books, as he grows from innocent gatherer of salamanders to maniacal burner of planets in the final issue. A lovely book, designed by the award-winning graphic designer, Lia Ribacchi.
88 pages, Paperback
First published February 4, 2004
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Tony Millionaire
105 books80 followersTony 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 newspapers across the country begininning with The NY Press in 1994 and has been collected by Fantagraphics, who also published his graphic novels, Billy Hazelnuts and Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird.
His work has garnered him five Eisner Awards, three Harvey Awards, and an Ignatz Award.
His comic strip Maakies was adapted to the small screen in 1998 for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and in 2008 as THE DRINKY CROW SHOW for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, which is now in repeats and available at www.adultswim.com.
His illustrations appear in publications around the globe including THE BELIEVER, THE NEW YORKER and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. He illustrated many record covers including THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS “Then; The Earlier Years,” JON SPENCER’S “Going Way Out With Heavy Trash,” JOLIE HOLLAND’S “Pint of Blood,” and ELVIS COSTELLO’S “Secret, Profane and Sugarcane,” and recently ELVIS COSTELLO’S “National Ransom,” to be released in the US in November.
He now lives in Pasadena, CA. with his wife, the actress Becky Thyre and their two daughters.
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 newspapers across the country begininning with The NY Press in 1994 and has been collected by Fantagraphics, who also published his graphic novels, Billy Hazelnuts and Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird.
His work has garnered him five Eisner Awards, three Harvey Awards, and an Ignatz Award.
His comic strip Maakies was adapted to the small screen in 1998 for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and in 2008 as THE DRINKY CROW SHOW for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, which is now in repeats and available at www.adultswim.com.
His illustrations appear in publications around the globe including THE BELIEVER, THE NEW YORKER and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. He illustrated many record covers including THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS “Then; The Earlier Years,” JON SPENCER’S “Going Way Out With Heavy Trash,” JOLIE HOLLAND’S “Pint of Blood,” and ELVIS COSTELLO’S “Secret, Profane and Sugarcane,” and recently ELVIS COSTELLO’S “National Ransom,” to be released in the US in November.
He now lives in Pasadena, CA. with his wife, the actress Becky Thyre and their two daughters.
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May 6, 2020
My Copy has "Volumes Three & Four" on the cover... so I hope this is the correct place to give you my thoughts. Which will be brief:
Much like the previous volume, "One & Two", it's much the same. Whimsical and disjointed progress with slightly painful faux victorian dialogue. This time the graphic styles skip around a but more (ink Lin, pencil, with and without hatching, child drawings reduced down until it's almost too difficult to read. Fun and endearing it was not.
Disjointed, without any meaningful structure, this was just dull. Not my cup of tea.
Much like the previous volume, "One & Two", it's much the same. Whimsical and disjointed progress with slightly painful faux victorian dialogue. This time the graphic styles skip around a but more (ink Lin, pencil, with and without hatching, child drawings reduced down until it's almost too difficult to read. Fun and endearing it was not.
Disjointed, without any meaningful structure, this was just dull. Not my cup of tea.
August 16, 2016
Beautiful line drawings and forever clever side kicks, Sock Monkey and Raven. Don't let Monkey play with scissors...
August 16, 2010
An irreverent delight.
February 7, 2011
Nice, but still not the best. I still like "The Inches Incident" best, but when Gabby tries to kill himself with a pair of scissors it's one of the heaviest things I've seen Tony Millionaire do.
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