Tony Millionaire
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Tony Millionaire's (1956 - ) Maakies is one of the most popular alternative newspaper comic strips in the world.
After living in Germany for several years, Millionaire began cartooning for a now-forgotten Williamsburg news weekly and drawing illustrations of people's houses to make ends meet. He soon graduated to the New York Press where he ran his weekly strip for years, until a change in editorial management eventually forced Millionaire to move to the Village Voice.
Millionaire was a part of the NYC transgressive art scene of cartooning, porn and music in the early '90s -- fueled by Screw as the main employer of many cartoonists/writers at the time. Among the cartooning industry, many infamous legends of Millionaire's wild exploits with cohorts The Human Lard Dog, Queen Itchie, Helena Harvilicz, Peter Landau, Kate Landau, Dame Darcy, Joe Coleman, Mike Diana, Sam Henderson and Danny Hellman still abound.
Millionaire moved to Los Angeles in the late '90s. His recent comics have been published by the New York Times. Animated versions of his work have been featured on Saturday Night Live and on a recent They Might Be Giants documentary. He has also produced a series of comic books titled Sock Monkey.
External Link
Official site (http://www.maakies.com/)