Premillennial Maakies: The First Five Years

Premillennial Maakies: The First Five Years

<p><strong>Collecting the first five years of the world's most riotous comic strip.</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, L.A Weekly</em> and Seattle's <em>The Stranger</em>. The strip is currently being developed for the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. <em>Maakies</em> 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.<br /><br /> Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, <em>Premillennial Maakies</em> is a newly designed edition of the long out-of-print first <em>Maakies</em> collection, featuring the first five years of the strip, re-formatted in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.<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 <em>Maakies</em> has appeared as a series of animated segments on NBC's <em>Saturday Night Live</em>. He is also the creator of the popular <em>Sock Monkey</em> and <em>Billy Hazelnuts</em> books.