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Maakies #2
The House at Maakies Corner
A new oversized (12" x 7") hardcover collection of one of America's most beloved weekly comic strips.
Tony Millionaire's Maakies is one of the most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in over ten of the largest US weekly newspapers, including the New York Press, New Times Los Angeles, and Seattle's The Stranger. Maakies features the comical adventures of a drunken crow on the high seas, blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtaking line that harkens back to the glory days of the American comic strip. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, The House at Maakies Corner features a year's worth of Maakies in a beautiful, deluxe hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.
Maakies suggests a contemporary collaboration between E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian (Millionaire is a tremendous fan of both). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and Maakies has appeared as a series of animated segments on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
Author Biography: Tony Millionaire was born in Gloucester, MA. He made his name as a staff cartoonist for The New York Press, where he remains a staple; he has been named "Best Cartoonist" five times by the paper's annual readers poll. Millionaire relocated to Los Angeles in 1999 to marry his longtime girlfriend, the actress Becky Thyre, where they now live with their daughter Phoebe.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2002
About the author
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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Did Not Finish
October 1, 2019From reading this strip years ago in various alt-weeklies, I didn't remember it as being so dependent for its 'humor' on racist and misogynistic stereotypes. Millionaire has said he's trying to show how ridiculous these views are but the jokes fall flat regardless of what his motivation is. And they really don't read like satire or irony, more like cheap gags, so I think he's failing in his mission. The constant theme of drinking and drunkenness also gets old quickly. It's too bad because I like his drawing style.
July 20, 2008
yeah Maakies!!!!
Its not hard to believe that this guy started out drawing this to pay his bar tab.
Its not hard to believe that this guy started out drawing this to pay his bar tab.
September 3, 2010
Manic-depressive-alcoholic-vomitous-goodness.
November 3, 2018
Maakies comics never disappoint 🖤
May 27, 2023
I'll face up to my greatest reading pettiness. Blackballing this dude based on his name! It just hits me as absurdity- something that someone doing makes me think less of them. Or, even if it's a real name, how do you not use a pseudonym to avoid seeming like someone who read "The Secret" and thought that changing his name to his goal would somehow work. (I have not read that book but was still told the Secret's Secret... if I have it correct above, that is!). All that said, the rare 5" x 12.25" shape of this book, unfairness guilt and horrible condition price put this into my hands and I was glad about it.
He's an excellent artist by all of my standards
Nearly everything set in the Napoléon era is beautiful to my sensibilities but he does stray from the consummate draftsman looking rendering often for sideshow type stuff. When there are panels of both next to each other it can be drastic looking.
The gags are mostly on the gross side of everything, exceeding with extremities, but somehow it's not TOO adolescent. The reoccurring suicide gags bother me though, as one of those things that makes me feel uncomfortable and look away from in movies. That's not an option here.
He does fit PLENTY of intelligence within his carnival morass. I see him as a smart writer that could really excel in longer->form if he left these characters in the strips and got solid advice from a seasoned scriptwriter. He might even be best in the 45-50 page album format if he spent some time in Francophonia since he must speak French (it's used in dialogue a few times).
He's an excellent artist by all of my standards
Nearly everything set in the Napoléon era is beautiful to my sensibilities but he does stray from the consummate draftsman looking rendering often for sideshow type stuff. When there are panels of both next to each other it can be drastic looking.
The gags are mostly on the gross side of everything, exceeding with extremities, but somehow it's not TOO adolescent. The reoccurring suicide gags bother me though, as one of those things that makes me feel uncomfortable and look away from in movies. That's not an option here.
He does fit PLENTY of intelligence within his carnival morass. I see him as a smart writer that could really excel in longer->form if he left these characters in the strips and got solid advice from a seasoned scriptwriter. He might even be best in the 45-50 page album format if he spent some time in Francophonia since he must speak French (it's used in dialogue a few times).
October 31, 2024
Art is great, substance is hit or miss
January 13, 2009
Booze. Sailing. Romanticism. Booze. Crude Humor. Booze. This is a "no-brainer." You've never heard the word "bogus" used so effectively as you have in this volumes and the prior Pre-millennial collection.
January 19, 2010
Drinky Crow, when you blast your brains out with a snubnosed revolver, you give me a reason to live.
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