{"id":44472,"date":"2025-07-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=44472"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:09:30","slug":"drinky-crow-drinks-again-daytripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/drinky-crow-drinks-again-daytripper\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinky Crow Drinks Again \/ Daytripper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MORE SEAFARING, SUICIDAL BIRD BOOZING AS DRINKY CROW DRINKS AGAIN<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Drinky Crow Drinks Again<\/em>
by Tony Millionaire
Fantagraphics
2016, 128 pages, 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches (hardcover)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Captain Maak (captain of the ship), Uncle Gabby (the Irish monkey), Gunslinger Jesus, Phoebe Bird, and everyone\u2019s favorite violent, binge-drinking, suicidal avian anti-hero, Drinky Crow, are all back and more beautifully bizarre than ever in Maakies: Drinky Crow Drinks Again<\/em>. From the confident, well informed, but often fevered hand of well-known American weekly comic strip artist Tony Millionaire, comes this new Fantagraphics landscape hardback collecting recent syndicated strips (along with some additional material). The book is as handsome as you\u2019d expect, coming from this artist and this publisher (even if it\u2019s the first Maakies collection not designed by Chip Kidd).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You never know what you\u2019re going to get from Tony Millionaire, but you know it will never be boring and it will always be beautifully rendered. Even more so than most, Millionaire\u2019s comic strips feel like you\u2019re mainlining the author\u2019s own insane membrane, watching him think out loud and exorcising his demons with pen and ink on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incredibly meticulous old-school draftsmanship, the many allusions to old comic strips and classic art, lots of clever twists and brilliant pay-offs, strips that dead end, and ones that go completely off the rails, often ending in violence or suicide \u2013 it\u2019s not always the smoothest ride, but it\u2019s one you\u2019re compelled to take, even if just for the gorgeous scenery. Luckily, Tony Millionaire, Maakies, and Drinky Crow have far more riches to offer than that. \u2013 Gareth Branwyn<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MOON AND B\u00c1\u2019S DAYTRIPPER IS A MASTERFUL NOVEL BY ANY METRIC<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Daytripper<\/em>
by Gabriel B\u00e1 and F\u00e1bio Moon
Vertigo
2011, 256 pages, 6.7 x 10.2 x 0.5 inches (softcover)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t think it would be too hyperbolic of me to say Daytripper<\/em> is one of the best graphic novels I\u2019ve ever read. It\u2019s a big story told in small moments. The epic, emotional core is powerful and life affirming, but brothers F\u00e1bio Moon and Gabriel B\u00e1 get there through the lightest touch of character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without giving too much away (because there is so much to discover), the story is about Br\u00e1s de Oliva Domingos, an aspiring novelist stuck writing newspaper obituaries. His life is both unique and unremarkable, and we meet Br\u00e1s at a different age in each chapter. Theses ages are told in a non-linear fashion, and mostly feature life-changing moments. The twist is that these moments rarely seem life changing as they are happening, as is usually the case in real life. We live each day as if it is any other, only noting the important bits later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Moon and B\u00e1, recognizing the personal is a matter of life or death. Br\u00e1s spends most of the book pining for more in his life, always dissatisfied with where he is. It\u2019s as if he\u2019s constantly waiting for his \u201creal life\u201d to begin. Moon and B\u00e1 suggest that life isn\u2019t the point when you finally find the success you\u2019ve been craving, or when you finally meet the love of your life, or any number of other things. Your life is now, today, in whatever situation you happen to be in. Life is happening all around you, and it\u2019s crucial that you not miss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The storytelling alone is incredible, but the art pushes the novel to even greater heights. Moon and B\u00e1 employ a realistic style that makes their S\u00e3o Paulo feel like the real city. This is crucial considering the more fantastic elements they periodically introduce into the book; they tiptoe across magical realism, and the art helps to keep you grounded. Their work is incredibly rich in detail, while the color has an almost sun bleached quality to it that appears lifelike. This is a masterful novel by any metric.\u00a0\u2013 Alex Strine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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