{"product_id":"drinky-crows-maakies-treasury-9781560979753","title":"Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury","description":"Tony Millionaire's \u003cem\u003eMaakies\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eL.A. Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and Seattle's \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e. The strip has also been adapted into the hit animated series \u003cem\u003eThe Drinky Crow Show\u003c\/em\u003e on the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, \u003cem\u003eDrinky Crow's Maakies Treasury\u003c\/em\u003e collects the second five years of the strip (previously reprinted in the volumes \u003cem\u003eWhen We Were Very Maakies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe House at Maakies Corner\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDer Struwwelmaakies\u003c\/em\u003e) in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaakies\u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaakies\u003c\/em\u003e suggests a contemporary collaboration between E.C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian (\u003cem\u003eMaster and Commander\u003c\/em\u003e). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and is also the creator of the popular \u003cem\u003eSock Monkey\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBilly Hazelnuts\u003c\/em\u003e books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDrinky Crow's Maakies Treasury\u003c\/em\u003e is nominated for a 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Best Humor Publication).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560979753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.20h x 4.60w x 1.10d","brand":"Tony Millionaire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52302273183925,"sku":"9781560979753","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7655fcd9-4fa8-480b-b763-43bb296e5a04.jpg?v=1772552700","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/drinky-crows-maakies-treasury-9781560979753","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}