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Maakies 1st Tpb (Fantagraphics Books)

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This volume collects Millionaires popular weekly comic strip Maakies and follows the dubious adventures of a monkey and bird, Uncle Gabby and Drinky-Crow, a drunken seafaring duo utterly divorced from reality and compelled to escape life through total inebriation. Ever sloshed, these two heroes stumble through decapitations and amputations of every variety, delirium tremens and self-cannibalism, in a never-ending cycle of comical misery, pain and death. But in the great tradition of comic-book characters, they come alive again ready for their next horrific exit. The two also recite poetry: world-weary reflections on love, death, drunkenness and the futility of life. Even the fish are alienated, sighing the baited hook, a tired clich, as Gabby casts his fishing line into the water. Millionaires strange and engaging comics style alternates between an almost sincere romanticism and a wholly unpredictable cartoonism. Hell devote a series of panels to beautifully rendered riverboats, while the next entries feature a roving band of ear mites who take up residence in Drinky-Crows rotted, sun-baked skull and ask him to describe the afterlife (like being strapped to a tornado of pain, he responds). The black and white drawings are impressive, with gorgeously rendered sailing ships, nostalgic seascapes and drawings in the style of 19th-century German prints. Designed by the esteemed Chip Kidd, this is a must-read for comics fans.

136 pages

Published by Fantagraphics 2000

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