Collecting the first five years of the world's most riotous comic strip. Tony Millionaire's "Maakies" 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 "Village Voice, L.A Weekly" and Seattle's "The Stranger," The strip is currently being developed for the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. "Maakies" features the comical adventures of a drunken crow on the high seas, blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtaking line that harkens back to the glory days of the American comic strip. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, "Premillennial Maakies" is a newly designed edition of the long out-of-print first "Maakies" collection, featuring the first five years of the strip, re-formatted in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style. "Maakies" suggests a contemporary collaboration between E.C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian ("Master and Commander"). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and "Maakies" has appeared as a series of animated segments on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," He is also the creator of the popular "Sock Monkey" and "Billy Hazelnuts" books.