Maakies

Maakies
Author(s)	Tony Millionaire
Current status / schedule	Ended
Launch date	1994
End date	2016
Syndicate(s)	self-syndicated
Genre(s)	Humour

Maakies was a syndicated weekly comic strip by Tony Millionaire. It began publication in February 1994 in the New York Press. It ran in many American alternative newsweeklies including The Stranger, LA Weekly and Only. It also appeared in several international venues including the Italian comics magazine Linus and the Swedish comics magazine Rocky.

On December 14, 2016, Tony Millionaire announced that Maakies has ended. One of the reasons he stated for discontinuing the strip was that many of the weekly papers that carried the strip were no longer in business.

Maakies focuses on the darkly comic misadventures of Uncle Gabby (a "drunken Irish monkey") and Drinky Crow (a crow), two antiheroes with a propensity for drunkenness, violence, suicide, and venereal disease. According to Millionaire, "Maakies is me spilling my guts... Writing and drawing about all the things that make me want to jump in the river, laughing at the horror of being alive."

Maakies strips typically take place in an early 19th-century nautical setting. There is rarely any continuity between strips. The comic often includes visual references to historic works of art, especially to the popular graphic arts such as Japanese ukiyo-e, European engravings, and early American newspaper comics.

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