Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury by Tony Millionaire - video preview

Tony Millionaire's Maakies is one of the best and most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in over a dozen of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers including the Village Voice, L.A. Weekly and Seattle's The Stranger. The strip has also been adapted into the hit animated series The Drinky Crow Show on the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury collects the second five years of the strip in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.

Maakies features the comical high-seas adventures of a booze-soaked corvid (Drinky Crow) and his equally-soused simian pal (Uncle Gabby), blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtaking line that hearkens back to the glory days of the American comic strip. The twosome also sometimes makes room for their stuffed-toy alter egos, a clockwork alligator, various other land-, air-, and sea-borne fauna, the Author and his Editor, the heavens, architecture, and occasional guest strips (by Kaz, Renee French, Eric Reynolds and others) and fumetti.

Maakies suggests a contemporary collaboration between E.C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and is also the creator of the popular Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts books.

272-page black & white 12" x 5" hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-56097-975-3

http://www.fantagraphics.com/maakiestreasury

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[Chesterton7]

this is killer stuff

[TheSlickAndroid]

@LuneyTune72 thanks for the words of wisdom,Fantagraphics. I'm gonna try thinking outside of the box.

[LuneyTune72]

@TheSlickAndroid That means your idea is too simple. I've learned that from much experience of running into issues as such. If you want some really impressive inspiration go to sir Frank Zappa. Your mind will open up and once you read his lyrics then you'll realize that ideas can be so complex, full of inside jokes, innuendos, etc. that there is no way anyone is doing something like you. If you run with a simple ideas (not that I know yours) then you will constantly run into the same wall.

[jsilence418]

I watched them all and I think they were a bit too far ahead of the audience, they will be considered indispensible in a few years! as many as it takes for some to realize family guy is a fucking bore!

[MrSluggo666]

@fantagraphics ???? too smart for the average ???????????? you are fucking joking is that how you take blame for failure?

[absentspartin]

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING...I WOULD NEVER FOLLOW THIS CRAP!!!

[TheSlickAndroid]

@fantagraphics aw,man,I am just so fucking bummed out right now. I've always wanted to make my own webcomic,and when I finally come up with not just 1,but 2 great possible ideas,it turns out they've already been done,and look exactly like the way i imagined them. I was so pissed,at first i thought,"HEY! thats my freaking idea,they stole my damn idea!" It just feels so soul crushing when you FINALLY come up with something good,only to find out its already been done.

[fantagraphics]

@TheSlickAndroid Krazy Kat is already pretty trippy. We can't think of any drug that would replicate the Tony Millionaire state of mind.

[TheSlickAndroid]

@fantagraphics you know how people think of South Park as Peanuts(Charlie Brown) on acid. well,I think we can all agree that Maakies is like Krazy Kat on acid.

[TheSlickAndroid]

@fantagraphics also,have you heard of this comic strip called "Pearls Before Swine?" to me,its pretty much the best newspaper strip out there right now.