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Billy Hazelnuts Tony Millionaire Books

All of Tony Millionaire's graphic novels and comic strips have a classic quality and an underlying wit and wisdom (and madness) that makes him my favorite of all cartoonists. (I was honored that Millionaire agreed to illustrate in my book "Encyclopaedia of Hell" .) But of all his many books and strips, this one is my favorite. It's weird, hilarious, profound cosmic scope is unlike anything else in graphic novels. His classic cross-hatching style looks like magnificent engravings done in an insane asylum. This book is dedicated to his hilarious wife Becky who is also the main character as a rambunction genius girl. I am in love with this crazy, beautiful book. Highly recommended.


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Billy Hazelnuts Tony Millionaire Books Reviews

This book is insane. However, unlike most of insanity, it lingers pleasantly upon the memory, probably due to the underlying sanity of the story structure. It WORKS, but why? What the HELL is going on? Aw hell, who cares, it is fabulous. Millionaire makes spun platinum out of his garbage golem in the wonderfully weird world the book lays out for your brain. One gets the feeling that the black and white is all you could deal with; if Millionaire colored it in the book, like Lovecraft's mythic Necronomicon, would send us over the cliff into the gibbering world of the utterly mad.
Wow, I'd heard of Tony Millionaire, but never seen any of his stuff until I picked this up the other day. All I can say is don't be put off by his reputation for comic book ribaldry. This is a great weird story that I'm definitely going to be reading to my as-yet-unborn child when she turns around seven or eight. Which also happens to be roughly the age of Becky, a pigtailed little girl who lives in a ramshackle mansion where she's built a strange contraption to view distant planets. Downstairs, her mother's campaign against the kitchen mice leads the little creatures to construct a kind of garbage-based golem to be their champion. When the mother counters this construct with a housecat, it is Becky who tracks the creature down, heals his wounds with honey and gives him hazelnuts for eyes and a proper name.

The ornery little creature and Becky are soon enmeshed in a series of surreal adventures, sparked by a tedious little boy named Eugene. One hesitates to reveal too much of what follows, but just to give a taste clockwork alligator pirates, seeing-eye skunk, mad scientist, matter enlarger, Noah's Ark, a whale, a rousing sea battle, and a planetary junkyard all come into play. It's a wonderfully inventive weird story, filled with great lines. For example, Billy stands on the back of a motorized rocking horse, yelling defiance at pursuers "I'm a barrelful of hate! Come open me up!" Or a villain coolly considers the wreckage wrought by Billy "Hmmm... The little fellow is tougher than he looks... a regular brass cupcake!" Or my favorite line of all "The guy we have to worry about is that skeleton-robot I made from the meat grinder when I was insane..."

This strays into some pretty dark stuff, and as one reviewer very correctly points out, follows the "marchen" (German folktale) template in many ways (marchen are typically characterized by elements of magic or the supernatural, such as the endowment of a mortal character with special powers or knowledge), and the artwork definitely fits the tone. One of the reasons I'd never checked out any of Millionaire's work before is because I just wasn't into his rather crude style of drawing. I tend to like clean, crisp work, and his stuff made me think of the Katzenjammer Kids or something like that. However, it totally works in this story. One kind of strange thing is that none of the characters have pupils, Becky has solid black eyes, and everyone else has solid white eyes, or else glasses that cover their eyes. Not sure if this is a tribute to Harold Gray (of Little Orphan Annie fame), or what, but it definitely adds to the overall mood. Some may find this is too dark or weird for their taste (although it pales in both respects next to the original Grimm stories and Dr. Suess), but don't be fooled -- it's a modern classic.
This book is brilliant. Elegantly drawn, exciting, earthy, wistful and elegiac. Highly recommended.
Billy Hazelnuts is a very weird sort of children's fable. Then again Tony Millionaire is a weird fellow. He balances wondrous adventure with a kind of adult cynicism. Vulgarity is easy (and Tony Millionaire can do that--see "Maakies" or "The Drinky Crow Show"), but Billy Hazelnuts is walking a much finer line. It's weird and stylized, yet still endearing. Besides that, the art is nothing short of gorgeous.

Billy Hazelnuts is like if Gollum were a golem. He was made by rats living in an old house. The rats wanted an enforcer to protect themselves from the old lady of the house and her cat. Thus "Billy Houseflies" was born, with a body molded from gooey garbage and a ton of captured living flies for a brain. Billy is naturally rambunctious and bestial (you know, like a real kid), yet has a sense of innocence about him. He soon meets Becky, the girl living in the old house who fancies herself a scientist. After noticing that the moon has disappeared, Billy leads them on a quest into the wilderness to find it.

Most of all there's a sense of imagination and adventure to this book. This world has an old-timey regularity, and is filled with characters that are just odd enough. But there is adventure to be had, and their wild exploits are approached with a classic dime novel "Hurrah!" We see a junkyard of broken planets, mechanical crocodile pirates, and a fierce battle-at-sea between a pirate ship and Noah's Ark. It'd be easy to say that this is comparable to stuff like Tim Burton or the Brothers Grimm, but honestly, I think it's a whole lot better.
All of Tony Millionaire's graphic novels and comic strips have a classic quality and an underlying wit and wisdom (and madness) that makes him my favorite of all cartoonists. (I was honored that Millionaire agreed to illustrate in my book "Encyclopaedia of Hell" .) But of all his many books and strips, this one is my favorite. It's weird, hilarious, profound cosmic scope is unlike anything else in graphic novels. His classic cross-hatching style looks like magnificent engravings done in an insane asylum. This book is dedicated to his hilarious wife Becky who is also the main character as a rambunction genius girl. I am in love with this crazy, beautiful book. Highly recommended.