Cartoonist Tony Millionaire is pitching an animated series based on his
"Maakies" comic strip to Cartoon Network. Who the heck is Tony Millionaire? If you don't know, stop
reading this, go to Maakies.com, and enjoy one of the best underground comics
ever, a combination of drunken, sea-faring animals, surreal plotlines, and the stylistic approach of the great
comic strip legend E.C. Segar. Then, while you're enjoying those strips, have someone else read the rest of this post
and tell you about it later. I have not found any official news on this, even on Millionaire's site, but
cartoonist Keith Knight mentioned on his blog that
he saw a brief clip of the series at The Staple 2006 in Austin. Animated shorts based on "Maakies" were
also shown on SNL a few years ago.
Update: Very special thanks to reader owen, who found this interview in which Millionaire talks about the new series. Also thanks to Robert for the direct link.















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4-11-2006 @ 1:26PM
owen said...
Tony talks about the show a little in this interview. (found via "The Beat" http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/04/tony_millionaire_talks_hyperio.html)
http://www.advunderground.com/interviews/millionaire0406.php
Logan: The Drinky Crow show coming to Adult Swim! Is that something you were actively seeking out, or did they come to you?
Tony Millionaire: They came to me. I was reluctant to do it because I had sat down through so many pitch meetings and Hollywood meetings about my comics and nothing ever happened. The guys said, "No no no, we really want to do it or we wouldn't be here." I said all right, let's go through the motions. And of course, it's been a year-and-a-half since that meeting, but it looks like it is actually happening this time. The contracts are all signed, the pilot is under way, we're working on it now, writing and drawing and getting all the scenes done.
[...]
And the good thing is, I've got Eric Kaplan working on it. He's a Futurama writer and he wrote for Malcolm in the Middle, and he's writing the scripts with me.
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4-11-2006 @ 5:08PM
Robert said...
Looks like you can jump directly to Keef's blog entry about Staple 2006 by using:
http://kchronicles.com/news.shtml#114177551529689277
Keef does the blog using Blogger, and it uses its very own arcane numbering system for the comments.
(I work on Keef's web site.)
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4-11-2006 @ 6:15PM
Adam said...
Thanks Robert. I interviewed Keith back in the day:
http://flakmag.com/features/knight.html
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