AAN News » Industry News
   

Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Talks 'Maakies,' 'Drinky Crow'

By AAN Staff
may 16, 2007  11:51 am
Alt-Weekly Cartoonist Talks 'Maakies,' 'Drinky Crow'
The Drinky Crow Show, based on Tony Millionaire's "Maakies" comic strip, hit The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim Sunday night. He tells the New York Times that after he started to draw the characters in exchange for beer at a Brooklyn bar, the New York Press eventually picked up the strip for $25 a week. "Maakies," which now runs in other alt-weeklies, remains the driving force behind Millionaire's creative output, even as he branches out into TV and books. "Without it I'd still be a bum, I'd still be drawing houses," he says. "I needed a deadline. That's the code of the cartoonist: make the deadline." He also explains to Baltimore City Paper why the TV show doesn't share the strip's name: "Maakies" works better visually than aurally. "But 'Drinky Crow' is a word that's very catchy, everybody loves to say 'Drinky Crow.' Little kids love to say 'Drinky Crow.'"
View full article at The New York Times
Tags: ,