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The precocious sock monkey Uncle Gabby, his innocent pal Mr. Crow,
and their tiny doll-friend, Inches, are the heroes of this funny,
unsettling and all-new Sock Monkey storybook. Convinced that their
human, Ann-Louise, has been kidnapped by a vicious monster dubbed
the Amarok, our heroes bravely venture into the Haunted Woods to
rescue her. The epic quest that follows takes them by sea, land,
and air through many fantastic lands and introduces a cast of
fanciful characters and creatures including the Trumbernick (the
pixie shaman of the forest), a giant sea monster, the Guardsmen of
Bear Town, and a flock of flying harpies. Beloved by adults and
children, Sock Monkey harkens back to all-ages fantasy / adventure
as The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland.
500 Portraits collects for the first time over two decades of
portrait work by the beloved and award-winning creator of Drinky
Crow s Maakies, Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts. Tony Millionaire s
gorgeous fountain pen illustrations, which mingle naturalistic
detail with strong doses of the fanciful and grotesque, include the
famous (Bob Dylan), the infamous (Abu Ghraib soldier/model Lynndie
England), the fictional (Yoda), the animal kingdom (a cockroach),
and everything in between. Literary figures (Hemingway), literary
characters (Don Quixote and Sancho Panza), Hollywood legends
(Steven Spielberg), comics icons (Herge) and historical figures
(Hitler) also figure prominently. Millionaire s impeccable linework
resembles that of Johnny Gruelle (creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy),
whom he cites as one of his main sources of inspiration along with
Ernest Shepard and all those freaks from the 20s and 30s who did
the newspaper strips. Many of these 500 portraits were created for
The Believer, the magazine founded by Dave Eggers that Millionaire
has helped define visually with his signature portraits of
interview subjects in every issue since the magazine started. But
it also includes dozens if not hundreds of illustrations from
various other publications, including The New York Times, The New
Yorker, Ephemera Press Historical Maps, The Wall Street Journal,
and others.
"There is nothing funnier than wrong when it is done right. Jim
does it right." -- Marc Maron "That's Jim, the cloud guy. The guy
whose book of fake obituaries has now made me unable to consider
eating chicken again." -- Rachel Maddow Mourning Remembrance is a
collection of mocking obituaries based on the lives, and deaths, of
real people. It's 276 pages of relentless insensitivity for the
whole family Created by Jim Earl, Emmy and Peabody Award winning
comedy writer and former staff writer at the Daily Show with Jon
Stewart. Mourning Remembrance celebrates the legacies of all those
dead individuals whose accomplishments spanned the spectrum from
the harmlessly stupid, to the horribly evil, and helped transform
our lives into the Orwellian nightmare it is today. Cover art by
Tony Millionaire, and illustrated throughout by Nathan Smith.
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