This is all new material which you’ve been complaining you couldn’t read online or in the paper because of line quality or size, these pages are big and clear, not a reprint, all the newest stuff.
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SOCK MONKEY
(For Kids and Adults)
Sock Monkey relates the adventures of the titular sock monkey, named Uncle Gabby, and a plush crow named Mr. Crow. Despite being toys, they are able to move, think, talk, and eat, as are most of the other toys in the series. The books are notable for their intricate artwork, dark humor, and quaint, vaulted dialogue. In contrast to the scabrous humor of his weekly comic strip Maakies, Millionaire has said that “Sock Monkey is me trying to rise above all that bullshit, to be more poetic, looking at the bright side, remembering the things that used to delight me as a child.” At the same time, “the main theme to all the Sock Monkey books is the crashing of innocent fantasy into bone-crushing reality.”
1. Sock Monkey: The Inches Incident
Inches the doll was the cutest in the whole house. Loved by everyone, the world was Inches’ oyster. Then one day something happened… The Sock Monkey and Mr. Crow became concerned for their diminutive friend, but by then it was too late! The truth sent the terrified Sock Monkey and Crow fleeing for their lives! Inches had turned EVIL!
2. The Adventures of Sock Monkey (Volumes 1&2)
4. Sock Monkey: A Children’s Book (2001)
Tony Millionaire’s Eisner-award winning, multi-Harvey-Award nominated Sock Monkey returns in his first-ever full-length book! A mix of comics and illustrated text, this book tells the tale of Uncle Gabbie the Sock Monkey’s origins and how he came to live with the little girl, Ann Louise. Have you ever wondered why Sock Monkey seems so creepy and lovable at the same time? Well here’s the answer!
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5. Sock Monkey: The Glass Doorknob (2002)
The Sock Monkey and the other toys in the house marvel at the prismatic spectrum shining on the parlor floor. They notice that the dazzling colors are somehow emanating from the beautiful glass doorknob on the front door. Winter turns to spring and the apple tree at the front of the house sprouts its new leaves, casting a warm green shadow on the door. But something happens to the doorknob, it seems to be broken, the magical light show hascome to a disheartening end.
6. Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby (2004)
The Sock Monkey returns home from the University where he has become a Master Poet dedicated to the Science of Un-naming Objects. He embarks on a journey of sentimentality as he rediscovers his childhood home. However, things are not as he remembers them, and he is subjected to an avalanche of heart-breaking realization.
7. That Darn Yarn (2005)
Uncle Gabby, everyone’s favorite sock monkey, is back in a new adventure that takes place in a Victorian mansion big enough to fit two stories at once. The stories start out separate. Pages on the right tell the story of a sock monkey getting snagged on a tack, slowly unraveling as he rambles around Ann Louise’s mansion. Pages on the left tell the story of Ann Louise finding a ball of yarn and knitting it into a sock monkey. As the stories converge, so do the pages, and soon Uncle Gabby’s adventure is off at a galloping pace.
8. Little and Large (2005)
Two stories in one. One is the story of a sock monkey helping a displaced spider search for a home. Will the spider’
s new home be a weathervane? A dollhouse? A goose-wagon? Sadly, no, no, and no! The other story tells the tale of Ann Louise’s grandfather, who smashes down trees throughout the woods and leaves the birds and squirrels homeless. Grandfather needs the lumber for something he’s building. Is it a new home for the spider? The answer is in the pages of these interlocking yarns.
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BILLY HAZELNUTS
(For Kids and Adults)
Famous for his bad-boy comic strip, Maakies, and his children’s books starring benign versions of the strip’s antiheroes, Millionaire here essays a third stream of his peculiar creativity in a graphic-novel marchen, or Germanic folktalelike narrative. The title character is a truculent little manikin made by mice out of garbage.
1. Billy Hazelnuts (W/ signed bookplate)
Billy Hazelnuts transmutes nursery rhymes and the golem myth into a storybook about Becky, girl scientist, her friend Billy Hazelnuts (who was created from cooking ingredients by tailless mice), and their journey to find the missing moon while battling an evil steam-driven alligator with a seeing-eye skunk.
2. Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird
Millionaire’s backyard golem returns in this winning follow-up to 2006′s Billy Hazelnuts. Rescuing the family cat from an attacking owl, Billy finds he has caused the abandonment of a newly hatched chick. This foundling attempts to hungrily devour Billy even as he quests forth to find the “crazy bird” ’s mother.
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3. Billy Hazelnuts + Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird
OTHER WORK OF TONY MILLIONAIRE
1. The Art of Tony Millionaire
The Art of Tony Millionaire collects illustrations, comics, stories, photographs, and anecdotes from the man once referred to as “Beefy McManus” by the late rock star “Rocky Stardomes”. . . the one and only Tony Millionaire! Thrill to never-before-seen illustrations that have made women gasp and grown men gasp, too! Partake in the beautiful genius of the only cartoonist in the history of mankind to have won five Eisner Awards, three Harvey Awards, and an Ignatz!
2. Mighty Mite the Ear Mite
Mighty Mite unfolds via a uniquely inventive formal approach: the left-hand pages tell Gabby’s story, the right-hand pages our eponymous hero’s, and not before the last page does the intertwined fate of both become clear. Mighty Mite’s pages are presented in luscious full-color, Gabby’s in stark grey. Presented as a lovely yet inexpensive hardcover objet d’art, Mighty Mite is a wonderfully unique and elegantly crafted story for all ages and a perfect introduction to Millionaire’s absurdist blend of gung-ho humor and exquisite pen and ink illustrations.
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I love the sock monkey books and so does my 13 year old daughter. I’ve bought as many as I can access from Australia for my school and I’m going to develop some learning material to go with the books for the 8 year olds in my class. Thanks again Tony, you’re a bloody genius!
The Magic Pudding was one of my biggest influences, but no one in the States seems to have ever heard of it.
If I recall, one of Peter Carey’s characters, a huge Australian idiot-savant from Theft: A Love Story, was somewhat obsessed with the book (The Magic Pudding). Perhaps there is an influence from the Southern hemisphere not yet fully appreciated in your works.
Tony,
My wife is a huge fan of Sock Monkey, and wants to make Sock Monkey cookies for you, since the price of your comics seems paltry thanks for the joy it has given her. Would you be willing to accept such a parcel from a complete stranger?
~W
Are they poisonous?
You wouldn’t even have to eat them – I’ll bet they look great…
big drops of icing for his pom-pom and candied eyes. Besides,
you can call for one of your royal tasters. I say accept them and post a photo. Perhaps Nabisco will come calling.
Hah. Only if you’re diabetic.
Mr. J. LeVine can vouch for us: he used to show our paintings. We’ve fed him many fine burritos over the years. Always has to take a nap afterwards.
OK, no.
just spent 60$ on maakies books last week, you’re bleeding me dry dammit
Last year I convinced a hungover friend to buy the Maakies Treasury because it was an important cultural artifact for us Alco-Americans. I haven’t seen him since, but I assume he was pleased with the purchase.
I am a very proud mother and I can see much of the influence I have had on you. I never knew before that you read all those Raggedy Ann books that were mine as a little girl. Glad you did! They are full of good morals!! Winnie ther Pooh was a pretty good one, too.
Love,
Mom
Mom,
I’ve been asked to do an introduction to the new Johnny Gruelle collection for Fantagraphics books. I’m really nervous. Will you help me? Maybe we should do an interview.
Love,
Scottie.
Well, that was a bust. The guy was Mega-Christian.
But what about the third Billy Hazelnuts adventure? When can we see him again?
Spring 2013
I’ll have to revamp my Christmas lists…..
Well, here it is…spring of thirteen. Billy? Billy?
This was an interesting article, but the last paragraph seems off. I am not sure how Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) led to Penning traps. The Penning trap comes from classical E&M and predates the observance of BEC by 35 years. And, true, some of the first laser cooling experiments were performed in Penning traps (1980), but it was that laser cooling that allowed BEC to be realized (1995), not the other way around. I also don’t understand how Penning traps were used in the first realizations of quantum computing (QC). I would have said the first quantum computing realizations occurred in NMR systems and with photons. It is true that trapped ions were used (and are still used) in initial QC experiments, but those were Paul traps, not Penning traps. In any case, it was an interesting article.