Drinky Crows Maakies Treasury

Drinky Crows Maakies Treasury

<p><strong>2010 Eisner Award nominee; 2006 Harvey Award Winner; 2007 Harvey Award Nominee for Best Syndicated Strip or Panel: a sumptuously designed hardcover collecting the second five years of the world's most riotous comic strip, featuring the high-seas hi-jinx of the booze-soaked corvid and simian stars of TV's <em>The Drinky Crow Show</em>.</strong></p> Tony Millionaire's <em>Maakies</em> 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 <em>Village Voice</em>, <em>L.A. Weekly</em> and Seattle's <em>The Stranger</em>. The strip has also been adapted into the hit animated series <em>The Drinky Crow Show</em> on the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, <em>Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury</em> collects the second five years of the strip (previously reprinted in the volumes <em>When We Were Very Maakies</em>, <em>The House at Maakies Corner</em> and <em>Der Struwwelmaakies</em>) in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.<br /><br /><em>Maakies</em> 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.<br /><br /><em>Maakies</em> suggests a contemporary collaboration between E.C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian (<em>Master and Commander</em>). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and is also the creator of the popular <em>Sock Monkey</em> and <em>Billy Hazelnuts</em> books.<br /><br /><em>Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury</em> is nominated for a 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Best Humor Publication).