"From 1974 to 1995, New Yorkers starred in their own comic strip in the weekly pages of the city’s trailblazing alternative newsweekly, The Village Voice. Stan Mack’s “Real Life Funnies” chronicled the everyday, the extraordinary, and the downright outlandish lives of New Yorkers, capturing their sardonic humor, sexual shenanigans, and exotic obsessions. Every story was told entirely in the subjects’ own words. And New Yorkers ate it up."
Contact: Gretchen Crary, gretchen@februarymedia.net, (646) 883-6648
"Indelibly candid, funny, startling, and occasionally even profound, these vignettes depict a magical lost metropolis that forever shaped our culture."--Joe Conason, journalist, author
Photo by Susan Champlin
In the blowing one's own horn department, I offer these links:
Georgia Dullea in The New York Times on At Work With
EliTalks: Mt Sinai to Providence, Rhode Island
Steve Heller in Print magazine on Conceptual Illustration in NYT
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York on Real Life Funnies
Jim Power and his Mosaic Trail
The Daily Heller on The Trib's Mighty Book Week
Michael Dooley on Occupy the Fourth-of-July Funnies
A memory of tattoo artist Mike Bakaty
Michael Dooley on Revolutions Foretold
Steve Heller in Print magazine on 'Max and the Black Bots'
Stanford Chandler in Humor Times on Insight on Cartoonists
Gene Bergmann on Jean Shepherd and Stan Mack
Steve Heller in Print magazine on Stan Mack the Knife
