OR – 500 Portraits Art Show
December 16, 2011 by Colin Solan
Filed under Art Show, Comic Books, Oregon, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Tony Millionaire signs at Floating World Comics on Thursday January 5, 2011 from 6-10pm and opens an art exhibit with for his new book, 500 Portraits.
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 & Sancho Panza), Hollywood legends (Steven Spielberg), comics icons (Hergé) 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.
Floating World Comics
400 NW Couch Street, Portland, OR 97209
NYC – Drinky Crow Signing
January 25, 2011 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, New York, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
NYC – Drinky Crow Returns
January 5, 2011 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Art Show, Comic Books, Comic Strips, New York, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
TONY MILLIONAIRE appears on Friday January 28th from 6-9pm…the drinks will flow when DRINKY CROW RETURNS !!!(to Dumbo Brooklyn)
The SCOTT EDER GALLERY is proud to present an art exhibition that rivals the 48th wonder of the world. #49 can’t even come around here!
Scott Eder Gallery
18 Bridge St, Suite 2-i, Brooklyn, NY 11201
