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After living in Germany for several years, Millionaire began cartooning for a now-forgotten Williamsburg news weekly and drawing illustrations of people's houses to make ends meet. He soon graduated to the New York Press where he ran his weekly strip for years, until a change in editorial management eventually forced Millionaire to move to the Village Voice . Millionaire was a part of the NYC Transgressive Art scene of cartooning, porn and music in the early '90s—fueled by Screw as the main employer of many cartoonists/writers at the time, (largely owing to Screw's comics-friendly art director, former RAW production assistant Kevin Hein). Among the cartooning industry, many infamous legends of Millionaire's wild exploits with cohorts The Human Lard Dog , Queen Itchie , Helena Harvilicz , Peter Landau , Kate Landau , Dame Darcy , Joe Coleman , Mike Diana , Sam Henderson and Danny Hellman still abound. Millionaire moved to Los Angeles in the late '90s. His recent comics have been published by the New York Times and the Village Voice . Animated versions of his work have been featured on Saturday Night Live and on a recent They Might Be Giants documentary. He has also produced a series of Comic Book s titled Sock Monkey . Currently he does much of the artwork, along with Charles Burns , for Dave Eggers ' The Believer (magazine) . When asked why he uses a pen-name, Millionaire (whose real name is Scott Richardson) invariably states that he does not, and that "Tony Millionaire" is his real name. He claims that his surname is from a French word meaning "someone who owns one thousand serfs." Comics historians have disproved Millionaire's claim by tracing the origin of the cartoonist's nomme de plume to an episode of the 60s TV series "I Dream Of Jeannie." EXTERNAL LINK Official site |
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