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Avg. Rating: 4.5
"Good Bye, Cruel World!"
I read this book last summer and I found it so uproariously hysterical that I decided to get up and fix myself another drink instead of shooting myself in the head. Such is the power of Tony Millionaire's Maakies. Yes, a comic book saved me from depression.
What's the secret behind Millionaire's unique formula? Suicide+alcoholism+naval battles=comedy? William S. Burroughs+Walt Disney+Herman Melville? The artwork, which is fairly detailed and traditional, and the cute characters act as a deceptive foil to the dirty jokes and ultraviolence that usually occur by the third or fourth panel of each strip. Maakies is a world constantly flipping back and forth between surreal poetic whimsy and scatalogical tomfoolery, innocent beauty and profane nastiness waltzing together in the ballroom of the subconscious.
Better than a pint of gin...almost.
I was REALLY plasterred when I read this, but I remember thinking it was funny, or maybe that was just the seizures coming back.Regardless. If I hadn't spilled whiskey all over it, I could tell you how beautiful the artwork is, i think; If I had the money, I'd buy a new one, but again, I spilled the whiskey, and I need more before the DTs catch up with me.
One of the all time Greats
Maakies is easly one of the all time greatest comic strips. Besides being beautifully drawn the strips wander drunkenly from lyric beauty to mind-numbing cruidity to nameless horror. There is no other source of such consistent humor, strangeness and unease. Gabby and Drinky Crow say the things you only think about saying as well as things you would rather not even think about let alone ever say.
How creative and uniques is Maakies? I have not once managed to describe it properly to any of my friends and have always had to give them the book so they can see for themselves.
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