{"product_id":"stan-macks-real-life-funnies","title":"STAN MACK'S REAL LIFE FUNNIES","description":"\u003cp\u003eSketchbook in hand, \u003cstrong\u003eStan Mack\u003c\/strong\u003e haunted the New York City environs, watching, listening, overhearing, and interviewing its inhabitants. He drew a comic strip every week based on what he saw and heard, famously using verbatim dialogue for his graphic dramatizations. A mixture of humor, spontaneity, serendipity, and weirdness, Mack’s comic strip snapshots caught New Yorkers -- whether it is an extortionist calligrapher, a baby evading arrest at her first protest, a stroll up Broadway with a ferret, or an unlucky-in-love dolphin trainer -- being who they are in all their unguarded and uninhibited glory.\n\n\"...a weekly treat that became addictive to many readers, including \u003cem\u003eVoice \u003c\/em\u003ewriters like me. We couldn't turn away from the words and the images so innocently set down by the wandering artist as he overheard New Yorkers blurting out the social, political, sexual, and status anxieties of a generation. Indelibly candid, funny, startling, and occasionally even profound, these vignettes depict a magical lost metropolis that forever shaped our culture.\" - Jo Conason\n\nAlso highly praised by Steve Heller, Roz Chast and Kurt Anderson.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n\nStan Mack (b. May 13, 1936) is an American cartoonist best known for his series \u003cem\u003eStan Mack's Real Life Funnies\u003c\/em\u003e, which ran in \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e for over 20 years. His \u003cem\u003eAdweek\u003c\/em\u003e comic strip, \u003cem\u003eStan Mack’s Outtakes\u003c\/em\u003e, covered the New York media scene. An early comic strip was \u003cem\u003eMule's Diner\u003c\/em\u003e, which ran in the \u003cem\u003eNational Lampoon\u003c\/em\u003e.\n\nMack was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. He served in the United States Army, stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, in the Department of Social Sciences.\n\nBefore turning to cartooning, Mack was the art director for Book Week at the \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, and art director of the Book and Education Department and\u003cem\u003e The New York Times Sunday Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e at \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eReal Life Funnies\u003c\/em\u003e was notable for its semi-documentary feel: all dialog was culled from Mack's observations, and reported as \"100% Guaranteed Overheard\". He said of it: \"This job gave me an excuse to accost people, to be pushy and aggressive. ... I learned to take notes on my shirt cuffs and walk backward in crowds. But most of all I learned to listen to what ordinary people have to say.\"\n\nWith his late partner Janet Bode, he co-wrote several young adult nonfiction books, including \u003cem\u003eHeartbreak and Roses, Hard Time\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFor Better, For Worse\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also created children's picture books, including \u003cem\u003eWhere's My Cheese\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e10 Bears in My Bed\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1998, Mack wrote and illustrated \u003cem\u003eThe Story of the Jews: A 4,000 Year Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e, a humorous cartoon look at the history of the Jews. In his 2004 book \u003cem\u003eJanet \u0026amp; Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss\u003c\/em\u003e, he wrote about his eighteen-year relationship with Bode and her eventual death from cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59641406718238,"sku":"STANMRH","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/stanmrh-stan-macks-real-life-funnies-book.jpg?v=1784505177","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/stan-macks-real-life-funnies","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}