Forgotten Fantasy: Sunday Comics 1900 1915 Product Form:Hardback Maakies features the comical high seas Maakies features the comical high seas adventures of a booze soaked corvid (Drinky Crow) and his equally soused simian pal (Uncle Gabby) Crane's formal use of the comics medium — threading several timelines and the interior and exterior lives of its protagonists together to create an increasing which brought to life stories inspired by both the technology of the time and the children’s fiction enjoyed by a burgeoning middle class The dawn of the 20th century saw of technological advances that were only dreamed of decades before