A reader writes, “Fantagraphics has a clip of Tony Millionaire’s upcoming Drinky Crow show, with themesong by They Might Be Giants.” Tony Millionaire’s Maakies comics are just about the funniest funnybooks being published today. Lewd, gross, quaint and hysterical fine-art pieces about stuffed-animal drunkenness that veer from children’s tales to vile amusements in a single panel. It is so cool that Drinky Crow is being turned into a TV show!
Remember, Tony Millionaire’s publisher, Fantagraphics, is laboring under the burden of a crushing, frivolous lawsuit and needs your donations. I gave them $100 of my own money a couple weeks ago.
The May 13 pilot of The Drinky Crow Show is directed by the award-winning animation director Igor Kovalyov (co-director of The Rugrats Movie and several acclaimed international shorts) and will, ratings-willing, be the first of an ongoing Drinky Crow Show series. Future episodes will take the cast from freezing Antarctic waters (where Drinky and Uncle Gabby catch small-pox and inadvertently spread it throughout the world), to Gay Paree (where Drinky falls in love with a French princess and contracts a new strain of syphilis, which falls in love with his old strain of syphilis), to Japan (in an episode that looks like a Hiroshige print come to life), and even to Brooklyn (where Drinky and Gabby create Tony Millionaire in a fit of delirium tremens).
See also:
Drinky Crow jack-in-the-box
Sock Monkey is a ShockWave
An archive of Maakies comics
HOWTO make your own Maakies sock-monkey