Maakies
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Maakies is a syndicated weekly comic strip by Tony Millionaire. It is the darkly humorous story of Drinky Crow, a crow, and Uncle Gabby, a monkey, two savagely violent antiheroes with a taste for alcoholic beverages, suicide, and sexual dysfunction. Maakies strips usually take place in an 18th century nautical setting.
Millionaire has stated the name Maakies has no meaning, and he simply chose the word because he liked the look of the two A's beside each other. He expains that he intends Maakies to be pronounced so that it rhymes with the Bostonian pronounciation of car keys.
Four books have been compiled from the strip - Maakies, The House at Maakies Corner, When We Were Very Maakies, and Der Struwwelmaakies. The stories in the comic book Sock Monkey have a loose connection to Maakies.
External link
- Maakies official site (http://www.maakies.com/)