The Drinky Crow Show Will Blow Your Brains

[Although they have been orbiting each other for years now, it seems that arch cartoonist Tony Millionaire and animation powerhouse Adult Swim are finally teaming up together in a meaningful way. I wrote the following piece for Wired.com about Millionaire's infamous strip Maakies dog-paddling its way to Swim reincarnated as The Drinky Crow Show, a fat load of nautical weirdness that offers as much in the way of laughs as it does in existential dread. Read up and post a comment if you like. Wired is down with Morphizm, and all is right with the world. Unless you're Drinky Crow. Then you want to blow your brains out. -- ST]

Maya Makes Drinky Crow Show's Boozy, 2-D World Spin
[by Scott Thill]
It started out as a comic strip in 1994, then gravitated toward the screen with a late '90s stopover at Saturday Night Live and a cameo in the 2002 They Might Be Giants documentary, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns. But more than a decade after Millionaire's ribald alt-weekly standout Maakies made the pages of The New York Press, The Village Voice and even Screw, it had yet to find a good home on TV.

What changed? The animation game. Millionaire's nautical hilarity once seemed out of place in an animated TV mediascape dominated by The Simpsons, whose creator Matt Groening also started out indie with the bleak alt-weekly strip Life in Hell. But with the success of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, Millionaire and Drinky Crow may have docked on the idiot box at last.

"I really love doing the strip," Millionaire confided in an e-mail, "and it's something I'll always do as long as I have newspapers who'll print it. But there's a lot we can do with sound and action beyond the limited space of the page."

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