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Stan Mack
Born (1936-05-13) May 13, 1936 (age 88)[1]
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist
Notable works
Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies
www.stanmack.com

Stan Mack is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author best known for his observational comic strip Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies, which ran in The Village Voice for more than 20 years. He was an early pioneer of documentary cartooning and is the author of numerous graphic nonfiction books addressing a wide range of social and historical topics.[2]

His work has appeared in publications including Esquire,[3]New York Magazine,[4] Modern Maturity, Print, and Natural History among others.[5]

His Adweek comic strip, Stan Mack’s Outtakes, covered the New York media scene for more than a decade.[6]

Early life and education

Mack was born in Brooklyn[4] but grew up in Providence, Rhode Island.[7] He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1958 with a degree in illustration.[8]

He served in the United States Army, stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, in the Department of Social Sciences.[9] In 1960, his work won first place in an all-Army art contest in the Drawings and Cartoons category.[10]

Career as an observational cartoonist

In the early 1960s, Mack moved to New York and found work as an art director. His first job was at a pulp publication called Climax.i[11] He was later hired to be art director of the New York Herald Tribune’s Book Week,[12][13] until the publication closed in 1968.[14][15]Throughout this time, he also worked as a freelance illustrator.[16]

New York Times

In 1969, Mack joined the New York Times as the Art Director of the New York Times Book and Education Division.[16] From 1969 to 1973, Mack was the art director for The New York Times Magazine[11] and later the New York Times Book Review.[11] During this period, his artistic influences included designers and art directors including Peter Palazzo, Henry Wolf, Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser, Saul Bass, George Lois and journalists Jimmy Breslin and Dennis Duggan.[11]

For the Times, he contributed nonfiction comic strips for the travel and lifestyle sections of the paper. In 1973, he accompanied reporter Georgia Dullea on a feature story assignment, creating sketches to complement Dullea’s article.i[17]But when he started jotting down overheard dialogue, Dullea discovered that Mack’s quotes were better than hers.[18]

Mack ultimately resigned from the New York Times to explore his interest in drawing real people.[18]

National Lampoon

In the early 1970s, while still the Art Director of the New York Times Magazine, Mack started experimenting with the comic strip format.[17] In 1972 he created “Mules Diner” [19]for the National Lampoon.[20]

AdWeek

Mack began creating “Out Takes,” a weekly comic strip for AdWeek Magazine, in 1981. The strip focused on the nuances, idiosyncrasies and humor of the advertising business. To create the strip, Mack visited commercial shoots, creative meetings, new business pitches and strategy sessions at agencies around New York City.[21] Before publishing anything he overheard, if requested, he would disguise the identity of the agencies, executives, or products.[12]

Bibliography

Children’s books

Potato Talk (1969) (as illustrator)[22]

The Preposterous Week (1971) (as illustrator)[23]

The Brownstone (1973) (as illustrator)[24]

10 Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown (1974)[25]

Where's My Cheese (1977)[26]

The Runaway Road (1980)[27]

Belmont the Bat Catcher and other Nutty Number Tales (1983)[28]

Graphic Novels

The Story of the Jews: A 4,000 Year Adventure (1998) [29]

Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss (2004)[30]

Revolting Rebels (2024; formerly Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution, 2012) [31][32]

Collections

Stan Mack’s Out-Takes (1984)i[33]

With Gail Kredenser

The ABC of Bumptious Beasts (1966)[34]

One Dancing Drum (1971)[35]

With Janet Bode (non-fiction):

Heartbreak and Roses: Real Life Stories of Troubled Love (1994)[36]

Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime and Violence (1996)[37]

For Better, For Worse: A Guide to Surviving Divorce for Preteens and Their Families (2001)[38]

With Susan Champlin

The Pickpocket, the Spy, and the Lobsterbacks (2024; formerly The Road to Revolution, 2009)[39]

Our Fight, Our Time (2024; formerly Fight for Freedom, 2012)[40]

References

  1. ^ https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/10204
  2. ^ Dooley, Michael (2013-04-26). "A Stan Mack Cartoon Chronicle of Revolutions Foretold". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  3. ^ Mack, Stan. "The Fire Island Ferry* | Esquire | September 26, 1978". Esquire | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  4. ^ a b Enright, Joe (2024-04-09). "Tales of New York –an interview with cartoonist Stan Mack, by Joe Enright". Red Hook Star-Revue. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  5. ^ "Apr 28, 1998, page 17 - Boca Raton News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  6. ^ Rhode Island School of Design (2014-05-28). "Behind the Scenes on Madison Ave". Our RISD. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  7. ^ "From Mt. Sinai to Providence, Rhode Island". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  8. ^ "Learning from History?". Our RISD. 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  9. ^ Army Times 1960-09-17: Vol 21 Iss 7. Internet Archive. Gannett Co., Inc. 1960-09-17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^ U.S. Army. Star Presidian Volume 9 No 1-50, May 1960 - May 1961.
  11. ^ a b c d Heller, Steven (2019-02-20). "Introducing Conceptual Illustration to The NYT". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  12. ^ a b "Jun 05, 1989, page 27 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  13. ^ "Apr 28, 1998, page 17 - Boca Raton News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  14. ^ "May 13, 1979, page 114 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  15. ^ "Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies". Society of Illustrators. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  16. ^ a b Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. American Institute of Graphic Arts. 1969.
  17. ^ a b "The Day a Garden Club Found Buildings Grow in Connecticut; Doors Flew Open". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  18. ^ a b Dullea, Georgia (1992-05-21). "AT WORK WITH: Stan Mack; Walk Backward, Carry a Big Bic". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  19. ^ "Your Usual Corner Table at Mule's Diner". Who's Out There?. 2021-11-20. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  20. ^ Meyerowitz, Rick (2019-03-15). Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great. Abrams. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-68335-767-4.
  21. ^ "Jun 05, 1989, page 27 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  22. ^ Rees, Ennis (1969). Potato Talk. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-82800-8.
  23. ^ Keenen, George (1971). The Preposterous Week. Dial Press. ISBN 978-0-8037-7071-3.
  24. ^ Scher, Paula (1973). The Brownstone. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-82487-1.
  25. ^ Mack, Stanley (1974). 10 Bears in My Bed: A Goodnight Countdown. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-92902-6.
  26. ^ Mack, Stanley (1977). Where's My Cheese?. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-93452-5.
  27. ^ Mack, Stan (1980). Runaway Road. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-31017-4.
  28. ^ Mack, Stanley (1983). Belmont the Bat Catcher: And Other Nutty Number Tales. Scholastic. ISBN 978-0-590-31874-7.
  29. ^ Mack, Stanley (1998). The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-year Adventure. Villard. ISBN 978-0-375-50130-2.
  30. ^ Mack, Stan (2004). Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-87278-0.
  31. ^ "Revolting Rebels: a History in Comics of the American Revolution – About Comics". Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  32. ^ Mack, Stan (2012-09-01). Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution. NBM Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56163-722-5.
  33. ^ Mack, Stanley (1984). Stan Mack's Outtakes. Overlook Press. ISBN 978-0-87951-997-1.
  34. ^ "Dec 15, 1968, page 83 - The News and Observer at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  35. ^ Kredenser, Gail; Mack, Stanley (1971). 1, One Dancing Drum: A Counting Book for Children (and Parents) who are Tired of Puppies and Chickens and Horses. S. G. Phillips. ISBN 978-0-87599-178-8.
  36. ^ Bode, Janet; Mack, Stanley (1994). Heartbreak and Roses: Real Life Stories of Troubled Love. Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-385-32068-9.
  37. ^ Bode, Janet; Mack, Stanley (1996). Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime and Violence. Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0-440-21953-8.
  38. ^ Bode, Janet; Mack, Stanley (2001). For Better, for Worse: A Guide to Surviving Divorce for Preteens and Their Families. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0-689-81945-2.
  39. ^ Mack, Stanley (2009). Road to Revolution!. Scholastic. ISBN 978-0-545-32815-9.
  40. ^ Mack, Stan; Champlin, Susan (2012-07-17). Fight for Freedom. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-59990-014-8.


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