as its NYC venue, but returned it to the New York Press in February 2007. Besides Maakies, Millionaire has produced a series of comics and picture books, collectively titled Sock Monkey. He has also occasionally contributed to comics anthologies including Legal Action Comics, Star Wars Tales, Marvel's Strange Tales, Dirty Stories, and Bizarro Comics. His illustrations are published in many leading venues including The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. Currently, he does much of the artwork, along with Charles Burns, for Dave Eggers' magazine The Believer. Animated versions of his work have been featured on Saturday Night Live, in the They Might Be Giants documentary Gigantic, and on Adult Swim. In 2006, Fantagraphics Books published his graphic novel Billy Hazelnuts. He is working on a children's book to be published by Hyperion. Since February 10, 2010, Millionaire's comic Maakies has been published weekly in Nib-Lit. Style and influences Millionaire draws in a lush style that mingles naturalistic detail with strong doses of the fanciful and grotesque. His linework resembles that of Johnny Gruelle, whom he cites as one of his main sources of inspiration, along with Ernest Shepard and "all those freaks from the twenties and thirties who did the newspaper strips"; many of Millionaire's admirers adduce a similarity to the work of E. C. Segar in particular. He draws with a fountain pen. The nautical settings of much of Millionaire's work draw inspiration from his childhood memories of his grandparents' artwork and seaside home, as well as the novels of Patrick O'Brian, of which he is an avid reader. Pseudonym When asked in interviews why he uses a pen name, Millionaire maintains that he does not, and that "Tony Millionaire" is his real name: "It is my legal name, and it's been around a lot longer than I've been a cartoonist." He has said his unusual surname is an Old French word meaning "a person who owns a thousand serfs," but the origin of the name "Tony Millionaire" is a character in an episode of the 1960s TV series I Dream of Jeannie. Millionaire has speculated that in the future he may publish some family-friendly works of his under a different moniker, in order to dissociate them from his other, more ribald output. Millionaire's actual name is Scott Richardson. Filmography Adult Swim Presents The Drinky Crow Show (2007–2009) (Creator, Actor, Executive Producer) Fun