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MacDoodle St. / by Mark Alan Stamaty ; introduction by Jules Feiffer.
Van Pelt Library PN6728.M29 S73 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stamaty, Mark Alan, author, artist.
- Series:
- New York Review comics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Wit and humor.
- New York (N.Y.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Wit and humor--Comic books, strips, etc.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 x 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- MacDoodle Street
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A collection of legendary absurdist comic strips about life in 1970s New York City, now available in print for the first time in over thirty years. Every week, from 1978 to 1980, The Village Voice brought a new installment of Mark Alan Stamaty's uproarious, endlessly inventive strip MacDoodle Street. Centering more or less on Malcolm Frazzle, a blocked poet struggling to complete his latest lyric for Dishwasher Monthly, Stamaty's creation encompassed a dizzying array of characters, stories, jokes, and digressions. One week might feature the ongoing battle between irate businessmen and bearded beatniks for control of a Greenwich Village coffee shop, the next might reveal a dastardly plot involving a genetically engineered dishwashing monkey, or the frustrated dreams of an irascible, over-caffeinated painter, or the mysterious visions of a duffle-coated soothsayer on the bus. Not to mention the variable moods and longings of the comic strip itself.... And somehow, in the end, it all fits together. MacDoodle Street is more than just a hilarious weekly strip; it is a great comic novel, a thrilling, surprising, unexpectedly moving ode to art, life, and New York City. This new edition features a brand-new, twenty-page autobiographical comic by Stamaty explaining what happened next and why MacDoodle Street never returned, in a unique, funny, and poignant look at the struggles and joys of being an artist"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stamaty, Mark Alan, author, artist. MacDoodle Street
- ISBN:
- 9781681373423
- 1681373424
- OCLC:
- 1042104767
- Publisher Number:
- 99983470791
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