Tony Millionaire is a writer and artist with boundless creativity and an uncensored spirit but the ideas that swim in his head are decidedly twisted and bizarre. It might be that we all have these thoughts but instead of expressing them we bury them deep down inside, repressing our own creativity for fear of appearing weird. Maakies is perhaps the most real, unvarnished expression of an artists mind of any comic strip I have ever read but it's not for everyone and definitely not for children. The jokes in Maakies are adult in nature and often graphically vulgar. It would be a mistake to think that Millionaire is just a hack who masks his lack of talent with vulgarity. He's an extremely talented artist who just happens to excel in the area of gross out humor.
Much of the humor comes from drunkenness and bodily functions. In one comic the simian wife of Uncle Gabby (who looks just like Gabby if he wore lipsticks and a dress) is hanging with her girlfriends getting drunk and excuses herself to visit the restroom. Staggering into the bathroom she trips and takes a header face first into the toilet. In the final panel Uncle Gabby's is being smacked in the head with a rolling pin for leaving the toilet seat up. I am a huge fan of comics in general but I don't even bother with the ones in the newspaper comics sections. They're just too sanitized for the general public and in my opinion rarely funny. When you try and make a comic suitable for everyone they generally are not very good. Personally I find the image of Gabby's monkey wife fall head first into a toilet hilarious but unlike mainstream comic artists Millionaire is creating a comic for a specific sense of humor which is why the average person on the street has probably never heard of Maakies.
In another strip, Uncle Gabby's girlfriend, the Captains Daughter, (yes, there is no attempt at continuity in Maakies) tells him to beware because she's sick but Gabby informs her that sailors are immune to illness. Uncle Gabby sees this as an opportunity to make out with her since she won't be able to smell his pervasive body odor. As they kiss with tongues shoved deeply into each others mouths the Captains Daughter coughs causing Gabby to vomit violently into the Captains Daughters mouth. This then causes the Captains Daughter to hurl back into Gabby's mouth. The humor is in the shear repulsiveness of it but the visuals and timing are hilarious and I literally laughed out loud at the audacity of it. You have to make the choice of whether this kind of humor is appealing but until you've actually seen a Maakies comic my description cannot even come close to doing it justice.
This is the third Maakies book I've read, the others being The Premillennial Maakies and Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury and the only downside of this book is that it's less than half the size of the other two books. Besides its reduced size Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees is a great addition to the Maakies series and I wholeheartedly recommend it. As an aside, many of the older out of print Maakies were reprinted in Premillenial Maakies and Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasure but there doesn't seem to be an overlap with Wrinkled Knees which is definitely a bonus.
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