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Kind of crossover, both webcomics and syndicated in alternative newsweeklies...

Maakies
http://www.maakies.com/

Migraine Boy
http://www.gregfiering.com/migraineboy/index.html

Perry Bible Fellowship
http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html

Tony Millionaire is a brilliant artist with a very dark streak. His weekly strip "Maakies" is about a suicidal, alcoholic crow and Uncle Gabby, his monkey buddy.

Main site:
http://www.maakies.com/

Sometimes he goes far afield and does something strange and wonderful:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m522.gif

Recent, typically morbid example:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m553.gif

More:

http://www.maakies.com/frames/index.html

Tony Millionaire is a brilliant artist with a very dark streak. His weekly strip "Maakies" is about a suicidal, alcoholic crow and Uncle Gabby, his monkey buddy.

Main site:
http://www.maakies.com/

Sometimes he goes far afield and does something strange and wonderful:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m522.gif

Recent, typically morbid example:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m553.gif

More:

http://www.maakies.com/frames/index.html

Tony Millionaire is a brilliant artist with a very dark streak. His weekly strip "Maakies" is about a suicidal, alcoholic crow and Uncle Gabby, his monkey buddy.

Main site:
http://www.maakies.com/

Sometimes he goes far afield and does something strange and wonderful:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m522.gif

Recent, typically morbid example:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m553.gif

More:

http://www.maakies.com/frames/index.html

Tony Millionaire is a brilliant artist with a very dark streak. His weekly strip "Maakies" is about a suicidal, alcoholic crow and Uncle Gabby, his monkey buddy.

Main site:
http://www.maakies.com/

Sometimes he goes far afield and does something strange and wonderful:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m522.gif

Recent, typically morbid example:

http://www.maakies.com/archive/m553.gif

More:

http://www.maakies.com/frames/index.html

So? A movie deal isn't every cartoonist's goal. Many great comics (especially comic strips) would make terrible movies. There are other ways to profit-- like merchandise and publishing, even selling original art.

BTW there are quite a few cartoonists who work in print-- typically "alternative weeklies" like the New York Press, or with indie comics publishers like Fantagraphics-- but also make their strips and archives available on the web. I wouldn't call them "webcomics" in the Penny Arcade mold but these guys have seen that distributing their work over the intraweb as well as whatever publishing opportunities come along, is a good way of reaching fans... Some of my favorites (catering to my weird tastes, of course:)

Perry Bible Fellowship
http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html
Maakies
http://www.maakies.com/
Underworld
http://www.kazunderworld.com/
Migraine Boy
http://www.gregfiering.com/migraineboy/index.html
Red Meat
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/

Oh for the love of Pete!

You're probably right that it's a reference to Drinky Crow, but the source of that name is not some damn moderator one some semi-obscure game website.

Drinky Crow is a character from Tony Millionare's comib Maakies, which may still be semi-obscure, but it's a hell of a lot less obscure than Gaming-Age.com. Drinky Crow is the character on the left-hand side of the banner at the top of the page.

You wanna see an animated Drinky Crow? Go rent (or better yet, buy, because it's great) the documentary on They Might Be Giants, Gigantic. About midway through, there's a short, inexplicable cartoon segment. The character who comes out of a ship onto an island and introduces the segment on coffee? That's Drinky Crow.

Now that's out of the way....

Actually, I'm rather interested in Nintendogs. Virtual pets are one thing, but obsessively realistic virtual pets are something else entirely. And remember in Japan, many people don't have the opportunity to keep their own animal because they live in shoeboxes. Shoeboxes with draconian animal rules and extremely large damage deposits.

Am I the only person on Earth who thinks that the whole Sandman series is woefully, outrageously overrated? I mean, it's just as silly as any superhero comic book that's ever hit the stands, but painfully, agonizingly pretentious.

Good comics:

• The Goon by Eric Powell
• The Marquis by Guy Davis
• Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey
• Hellboy, by the inimitable Mike Mignola.
• Cave-In by Brian Ralph
• Mark Schultz's beautiful Xenozoic Tales...

Some of my favorite weekly comic strips have made the journey from print (in news weeklies) to online. Presumably, these guys don't get paid to reprint their comics on the Web, but it increases their exposure and maybe convinces their fans to lobby to get them into local weeklies.

Tony Millionaire's Maakies is pure genius.

Try Underworld , by Kaz, if you want to tickle your cynical side.

You can also just go to maakies.com.

Tony Millionaire's comics are all there and you can buy the originals too.

E H Shepard Pooh versus Disney Pooh.