For those of you who already know the twisted world of Tony Millionaire's Maakies, you can skip to the next paragraph. For those of you who don't, the 13-year old comic strip has birthed more than its share of dark, guilty laughter and drunken, suicidal antiheroics. It's landed face time on both SNL and the alt-weeklies, but has nevertheless kept its nautical weirdness below the mainstream pop radar. That gives it both the street cred and shelf life it needs to survive the rewarding Adult Swim bloc on Cartoon Network.
That's right, Millionaire's indie tugboat lands in Swim's waters on May 13 (there's that number again), using his main Maakie Drinky Crow as the vehicle for a potent dose alcohol-fueled snark. Here's the Revver vid floated by Fantagraphics, one of the coolest comics pubs in the game.
The nerd hooks are aplenty. Co-creator of The Drinky Crow Show Eric Kaplan runs the Mirari animation house and wrote for the mighty Spy Mag and Futurama. They Might Be Giants wrote its original theme song and the show was built in what Fanta calls "Glorious Maakie-Mation," a mash of comic strips, 2D and 3D animation. Nice.
Those who want a primer on the bizarro Crow should check out this absurdist Drinky-sode. Caw!
