When We Were Maakies - Hardcover

Millionaire, Tony

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560975903 ISBN 13: 9781560975908

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2004

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A new hardcover collection of one of America's most popular weekly comic strips.

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 US weekly newspapers including the Village Voice, L.A Weekly, 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, When We Were Very Maakies is our second hardcover collection and features over two years' worth of Maakies in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style. Dave Eggers, the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, contributes the introduction to When We Were Very Maakies. Reading Maakies is like reading a beautifully illustrated diary. If you pay attention you can watch the evolution of the cartoonist as he grows from a drunken penniless ne'e'r-do-well to a drunken million-dollar-less som'tim's-do-well. This book collects the latest of Tony Millionaire's weekly strips, and includes such gems as the story of a pregnant butterfly,a motorcycle-riding leprechaun and a worm who lives inside the bowels of a frozen dead monkey in a NASA space capsule orbiting the Orion constellation. Of course Drinky Crow, as always, steals the show. 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 Maakies has appeared as a series of animated segments on NBC's Saturday Night Live. He is also the creator of the popular Sock Monkey line of comics and children's books.

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About the Author:

Tony Millionaire lives in Pasadena, CA with his wife, the actress Becky Thyre, and their two daughters. He creates the award-winning weekly syndicated comic strip Maakies. His books include Billy Hazelnuts, Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird, Der Struwwelmaakies, Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury, Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees, Mighty Mite the Ear Mite, Premillennial Maakies, Little Maakies on the Prairie, The House at Maakies Corner, When We Were Very Maakies, 500 Portraits, and the Sock Monkey series of comics and storybooks.

From Booklist:

Instead of a review, it is tempting to simply reprint Dave Eggers' introduction to the latest gathering of Millionaire's raunchy comic strip Maakies. Eggers' spiel is only one Booklist-review-size paragraph long and says true things about artist and strip. Perhaps two questions and answers are the truest, though: "Do his strips make sense? Often they do. Are they sometimes puerile? We know that they are and are thankful for this." Conversely, of course, some strips seem senseless and most, pretty darned adult (i.e., postpubertal puerile). Regularly, they are gory, violent, revolting, and, above all, absurd. In them society is a dunghill; people are witless, faithless sadists; and life is nasty, brutal, and, alas, inescapable (witness the main characters' repeated suicides--and resurrections). But the rolling seas and towering clouds, the three-masted ships that sail on the one and beneath the other, the gardens and butterflies, the sweeping landscapes--all gorgeously drawn--amid which the maladventures of Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby, Millionaire's alcoholic antiheroes, frequently unfold, betray a romantic sensibility of heartbreaking intensity. Ray Olson
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