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February 20, 2008   Creator: Tony Millionaire Publishing
Information: Fantagraphics, hardcover, 120 pages, February 2008,
$19.95 Ordering Numbers: 9781560978930 (ISBN13)  imageThere are
few comics series whose new installments I anticipate to the
degree I look forward to Fantagraphics' publications of Tony
Millionaire's Maakies. I like just about everything it has to
offer. I enjoy the feel of the project, the landscape design
that's so ridiculous and ungainly it's almost an endorsement of
Millionaire's status all by itself. The books are attractively
produced, with playfully evocative design by Chip Kidd. The look
of the comic strip provides me with a great deal of pleasure;
it's one of the few strips in the alt-weekly world where you
occasionally stop in disbelief that it looks as nice and labor-
intensive from week to week as it does. The craft chops on
display provide much of the atmosphere with which the strip gets
over its jokes and serves as a