Maakies
10 best books like Maakies (Tony Millionaire): Prison Pit, Vol. 1, The Frank Book, Twentieth Century Eightball, The Man Who Grew His Beard, School is Hell, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies, 1943–1945, Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits, Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
Prison Pit is an original graphic novel from the pen of Johnny Ryan, best known for his humor comic Angry Youth Comix. Prison Pit represents a marked departure from AYC or his Blecky Yuckerella weekly comic strip, combining his love for WWE wrestling, Gary Panter s Jimbo comics, and Kentaro Miura s Berserk...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1560975342 |
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
Twentieth Century Eightball
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560974362 |
Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606994468 |
The Man Who Grew His Beard is Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s first American book, having staked a reputation over the last decade as one of Europe’s most talented storytellers. It collects seven short stories, each a headspinning display of craft and storytelling that mixes early twentieth-century...
| Author | Matt Groening |
| ISBN | 0007179243 |
I first encountered this book when I was...oh, about 9 or 10. And, while I didn't understand all the humor contained within, I, being a school student and immersed in daily school life, could certainly "get" much of it. And the rest? Well, it went right over my sweet and innocent little pig-tailed head....
| Author | Walt Kelly |
| ISBN | 1560978694 |
Kelly sure came out swinging right from the beginning. Though there are limitations and repetition here (Albert manages to swallow or seem to swallow quite a number of other creatures, for instance), the strip's greatness is evident pretty much from the jump. The art's expressive, complex, detailed,...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Ernie Bushmiller |
| ISBN | 1606993607 |
A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmiller 's Nancy, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper readers, true...
| Author | Art Spiegelman |
| ISBN | 0811831795 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant...
| Author | George Herriman |
| ISBN | 1560975075 |
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost...
| Author | Ivan Brunetti |
| ISBN | 0300111703 |
Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a “modern” sensibility. As with Chris Ware’s selections for his best-selling McSweeney’s anthology,...
| Author | Chris Onstad |
| ISBN | 1593079974 |
Well, I loved the concept of this book. . .
I mean - GEEZ! Right?
Thousands of men duking it out until the one still standing is declared the winner. It sounds kind of like when the WWE boys snap their collective caps and start whaling on each other and for once the whole thing doesn't...
| Author | Michael Kupperman |
| ISBN | 1606991647 |
Fans and comedy cognoscenti alike, basking devotedly in the glow of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, have made it the smash hit humor comic of the decade. And now the first four issues of Michael Kupperman s revered series are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. Even better, Kupperman has taken...
The Acme Novelty Library #17
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 1897299028 |
Undaunted by lukewarm Internet and blogospheric opinion ("flat," "slow," and "always dreary") of his meretricious return last year to the tradition of the American comic book with the sixteenth issue of his ACME Novelty Library, cartoonist and professional sentimentalist Chris Ware returns with...
Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!
| Author | E.C. Segar |
| ISBN | 1560977795 |
Fantagraphics' Popeye series will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his...
Buddy Bradley, Vol. 1: Hey, Buddy!
| Author | Peter Bagge |
| ISBN | 1560971134 |
In this book, Buddy shows the reader round the cheap Seattle apartment he shares with two roommates, works in a second-hand bookstore from which he steals on a regular basis to develop his personal collection, is inconveniently visited by his violent younger brother, picks up a freebie from a grumpy...
