Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995

By Stan Mack

Book Overview

WINNER 2024-2025 New York City Book Awards, New York Society Library

Sketchbook in hand, Stan Mack 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, an evening with a male liberationist, or an unlucky-in-love dolphin trainer -- being who they are in all their unguarded and uninhibited glory. This collection includes a foreword by CNN journalist Jake Tapper (The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor) and an afterword by Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683969162
• ISBN13: 9781683969167
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Fantagraphics-Fu
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 12.2" x 8.7"