Stan Mack, Sept. 17, 2024 at 7pm EDT, live
The 398th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024 at 7 pm EDT. Live and in-person at The New School, University Center, 63 Fifth Ave., room UL104, New York City. Also, streaming live via Zoom. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.
Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: comics by a connoisseur of the streets. Moderated by Danny Fingeroth.
My job was to wander, detached, seemingly aimless, incognito, to observe, unencumbered by obligation, a solitary stroller reconnoitering, stalking, cruising, using the techniques of method actors to capture in comic strip format the spirit of the city landscape from 1974 to 1995.
The origins for Real Life Funnies are found in the ‘new’ journalism of the 1960s. Through my book and my stories, come along with me into the past, where tik tok doesn’t rule.
Stan Mack pioneered a documentary style of cartooning with his legendary New York comic strip “Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies,” which ran in The Village Voice for 20 years. For a decade in Adweek magazine, “Stan Mack’s Out-takes” took on the world of media. Mack is a former art director of The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Among his graphic books are, Revolting Rebels: A History of the American Revolution and Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure. they have been described as, “wonderfully subversive,” “delightfully whimsical,” “reportorial and poetic,” and “anticipating graphic journalism and graphic reportage by two or three decades.”
Danny Fingeroth is a longtime comics writer and editor and a cultural historian. He's the Chair of Will Eisner Week and is the author of 2019's A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee (St. Martin's Press/Macmillan)and 2023's Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin (Chicago Review Press).