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Tony Millionaire

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Cover for Giants Jubilee, drawn by Tony Millionaire and featuring the Drinky Crow
Cover for Giants Jubilee, drawn by Tony Millionaire and featuring the Drinky Crow

Tony Millionaire is likely the most famous graphic designer who has ever worked for They Might Be Giants. He is the creator of Maakies, an alternative comic strip, and the Sock Monkey comic book series, much of which is included in a collection that has been published with an introduction by John Flansburgh. You might recognize his work from the TMBG drinking glasses. He also used to work for Saturday Night Live. Additionally, he did the illustrations in the book "The Five-Minute Iliad and other Instant Classics," written by Greg Nagan. He also did the illustrations for Then: The Earlier Years, and animated the introduction to Gigantic's 'coffee' segment. He currently contributes incidental drawings for The Believer, a monthly magazine put out on Dave Eggers's McSweeney's publishing imprint. Most recently, Tony has been working on a pilot for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup called The Drinky Crow Show, for which They Might Be Giants created the theme song. Millionaire recenlty completed another animation project entitled God Hates Cartoons with three other TMBG collaborators, Brian Dewan, Andy Richter, and Sam Henderson, the animator for Flying V.

Tony Millionaire on TMBG: "I've known them actually before I started doing comics, years ago when I lived in Brooklyn. I was friends with Brian Dewan and he was roomates with John Linnell. We'd go to parties and those guys would be hanging around, and then before you knew it, boom, they were famous. So they knew my comics and they asked me to do an album cover for them, which is called Then: The Early Years."
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