Drinky Crows Maakies Treasury

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 worlds most riotous comic strip featuring the high-seas hi-jinx of the booze-soaked corvid and simian stars of TVs The Drinky Crow Show. Tony Millionaires 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 Seattles The Stranger. The strip has also been adapted into the hit animated series The Drinky Crow Show on the Cartoon Networks popular Adult Swim. Designed by publishings foremost graphic designer Chip Kidd Drinky Crows 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 strips 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 OBrian (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. Drinky Crows Maakies Treasury is nominated for a 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Best Humor Publication).