Drinky Crow's Maakies Treas Cl

by Millionaire,Tony

• ISBN13: 9781560979753
• ISBN10: 1560979755
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Fantagraphics

Summary

Tony Millionaire's Maakies is one of the best and mostpopular weekly comic strips in America, running in over a dozen of thelargest 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 (previously reprinted in the volumes When We Were Very Maakies , The House at Maakies Corner and Der Struwwelmaakies ) in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.Maakies features the comical high-seas adventures of abooze-soaked corvid (Drinky Crow) and his equally-soused simian pal(Uncle Gabby), blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtaking linethat hearkens back to the glory days of the American comic strip. Thetwosome also sometimes makes room for their stuffed-toy alter egos, aclockwork alligator, various other land-, air-, and sea-borne fauna,the Author and his Editor, the heavens, architecture, and occasionalguest strips (by Kaz, Renee French, Eric Reynolds and others) andfumetti.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.