From 1974 to 1995, Stan Mack tagged along on the adventures of ordinary New Yorkers, then combined their stories with his frenetic pen-and-ink artwork to create the documentary-style comic Stan Mack's Real-Life Funnies. Now, Fantagraphics has published a collection of some of Stan's sharpest strips.
In the 1970's, Stan Mack left a steady job as Art Director of the New York Times Sunday Magazine to blaze a trail in the world of alternative comics. Half a century later, Stan is the celebrated author of graphic histories, memoirs, and young-adult and children's books, as well as an illustrator and storyteller for The Village Voice, Adweek, and the National Lampoon.
Stan sits down with S.W. Conser to talk about the worlds of radical 1960's design, New Journalism, street theater, the brief comics career of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, and collaborations with spouse and writer Susan Champlin.
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