500 Portraits
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500 Portraits Author: Tony Millionaire Format: Hardcover Colors: black & white Year: 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-60699-473-3 Price: $22.99
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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 (Herge) 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. "I think Tony Millionaire can only do important things." - Dave Eggers Download and read a 20-page PDF excerpt (1.1 MB). |
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Feature Review
Tony Millionaire's Portraits of Musicians Pictures - Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone presents 10 of Tony Millionaire's best drawings of musicians from 500 Portraits and, what's more, the magazine's Matthew Perpetua got Tony to talk about each one - both the musicians themselves and the experience of drawing them. Check it out unless you hate wonderfulness.
THAT IS ALL, In Seattle last night, two lovely Fantagraphians...
We presented John Hodgman with a copy of Tony Millionaire's 500 Portraits, in which a drawing of him appears and about which he subsequently had this to say in part: "This makes me astonished and happy and embarrassed, for Tony Millionaire is one of our true genii. And too, look, right there on the same page is my old friend John Sellers! And Borges! And you were there, too, Cthulhu! I don't know how those other guys crashed our party, though. In any case, you should go out and get this book. It's absolutely beautiful, painstaking, and weird, inside and out, just like I imagine Tony is himself: the ORIGINAL deranged millionaire."
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