Sock Monkey

Sock Monkey is a series of comics and illustrated books written and drawn by the American cartoonist Tony Millionaire.

In contrast to the scabrous humor of his weekly comic strip Maakies, Millionaire has said that "Sock Monkey is me trying to rise above all that bullshit, to be more poetic, looking at the bright side, remembering the things that used to delight me as a child."

At the same time, "the main theme to all the Sock Monkey books is the crashing of innocent fantasy into bone-crushing reality.

As of late 2006 a four-issue Sock Monkey miniseries featuring an extended story titled "The Inches Incident" is being released one issue at a time.

Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby (2004), That Darn Yarn (2005), and Little and Large (2005) are full-color, hardcover comic books.

[2] Millionaire also published an 80-page illustrated story with co-author Matt Danner under Fantagraphics Books, Inc. called Sock Monkey Into The Deep Woods (2014).

Dark Horse also sells a variety of Sock Monkey merchandise including stationery, t-shirts and figurines.

Together with his friend Mr. Crow he cooks up various schemes, such as going on a salamander hunt or match-making for a widowed mouse, which tend to lead to unforeseen calamity.