{"product_id":"drinky-crows-maakies-treasury-hardcover-by-tony-millionaire","title":"Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury Hardcover by Tony Millionaire","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2009-04-20)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e272\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781560979753\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e567.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2010 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Drinky Crow Show\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Millionaire's \u003ci\u003eMaakies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL.A. Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e and Seattle's \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e. The strip has also been adapted into the hit animated series \u003ci\u003eThe Drinky Crow Show\u003c\/i\u003e on the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, \u003ci\u003eDrinky Crow's Maakies Treasury\u003c\/i\u003e collects the second five years of the strip (previously reprinted in the volumes \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Very Maakies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House at Maakies Corner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDer Struwwelmaakies\u003c\/i\u003e) in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMaakies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMaakies\u003c\/i\u003e suggests a contemporary collaboration between E.C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian (\u003ci\u003eMaster and Commander\u003c\/i\u003e). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and is also the creator of the popular \u003ci\u003eSock Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBilly Hazelnuts\u003c\/i\u003e books.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDrinky Crow's Maakies Treasury\u003c\/i\u003e is nominated for a 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Best Humor Publication).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Millionaire\u003c\/b\u003e is the creator of the award-winning weekly syndicated comic strip \u003ci\u003eMaakies\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eBilly Hazelnuts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird, Der Struwwelmaakies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDrinky Crow's Maakies Treasury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaakies with the Wrinkled Knees\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMighty Mite the Ear Mite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePremillennial Maakies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Maakies on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House at Maakies Corner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Very Maakies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e500 Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSock Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e series of comics and storybooks. 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