Tony Millionaire didn’t want a film made about him. In fact, he said NO to the filmmakers for years. At the producer’s insistence, he finally agreed to be interviewed. But in the middle of the first filming session, he walked out.

Filmed over a decade, the movie aims to answer the question: Who is Tony Millionaire? It’s the story of a loud giant of a man, chasing people around with his false teeth, performing drunk on stage, and being the worst party guest; the guy who did that thing last weekend that everyone was talking about. He is also the artist behind Maakies, a weekly comic strip featuring a drunk bird (Drinky Crow) and a foul-mouthed sailor monkey (Uncle Gabby).

But he also makes beautifully rendered drawings in pen and ink (many of his portraits were seen in The Believer), colorful and sweet children’s books about a Sock Monkey in a Victorian house, and was a devoted father to his daughters.

Through contrasts and contradictions, the film is a story about a man, an artist, a boyfriend, a father, a performer, a searcher. It’s a story about telling stories, and the revelation that life is also a performance. The film may raise more questions than it answers. The documentary is a love song sung by a ribald chorus of drunk sailors at a cartoonists’ bar. It’s raunchy, lewd, profane and raw in its honesty, but also sweet, sensitive and touching. Fast paced with hundreds of edits, it’s captures the art and person of Tony Millionaire himself.

Featuring interviews with over 50 cartoonists, artists, editors, and musician, including Renee French, Johnny Ryan, James Urbaniak, Jon Sarkin, and Kaz.