{"id":135172,"date":"2019-04-04T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=135172"},"modified":"2019-04-04T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:58:33","slug":"the-corner-of-macdoodle-st-and-memory-ln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/the-corner-of-macdoodle-st-and-memory-ln\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corner of <em>MacDoodle St.<\/em> and Memory Ln."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mark Alan Stamaty\u2019s<\/em> Village Voice <em>comic <\/em>MacDoodle St.<em> is unlike anything else in print. Each installment of the weekly strip, which ran from 1978 to 1979, is packed with sight gags and digressions, the panels near to bursting with recurring characters and critters. Through this chaos, though, zings an arrow of a plot. From week to week, Stamaty somehow finds a way to thread non sequiturs into a cohesive whole. Tossed-off jokes calcify into story beats, and Malcolm Frazzle, a doofy poet, bumbles his way into somehow saving the world. The final strip shows Malcolm and friends sailing out of the city on MacDoodle Airlines, promising to \u201cbe back after a while.\u201d However, the strip never returned. This week, New York Review Comics has reissued the complete<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/macdoodle-street?variant=9282305261620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MacDoodle St.<\/a> <em>in book form. A<\/em><em> new addendum, written forty years after the strip\u2019s finale, reveals why Stamaty said goodbye to<\/em> MacDoodle St.\u00a0<em>and how, in the process, he rediscovered the joy of being an artist. A portion of this addendum appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-8-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-8-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135180\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-14.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-14-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-14-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135184\" 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https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-16-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-16-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-17.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-17-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-17-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-18.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-18-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-18-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-19.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-19-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/macdoodle-addendum-19-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Alan Stamaty is an acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator. His children\u2019s books include <\/em>Who Needs Donuts?<em> (1973, 2003), <\/em>Alia\u2019s Mission<em> (2005), <\/em>Shake, Rattle &amp; Turn That Noise Down!<em> (2010), <\/em>Small in the Saddle<em> (1975), <\/em>Minnie Maloney &amp; Macaroni<em> (1976), and <\/em>Where\u2019s My Hippopotamus?<em> (1977). From 1977 to 1978, Stamaty\u2019s panoramic centerfold cartoons of Greenwich Village and Times Square for the <\/em>Village Voice <em>attracted widespread attention and were sold by the <\/em>Voice<em> as posters; he then created a series of comic strips for that paper, including <\/em>MacDoodle St.<em> In 1981, he created the acclaimed political comic strip <\/em>Washingtoon<em> for the <\/em>Voice<em> and the <\/em>Washington Post<em>, and it was soon picked up by more than forty papers. From 1994 to 1996, he was the political cartoonist for <\/em>Time<em> magazine, and from 2001 to 2003, he produced the monthly comic strip <\/em>Boox<em> for the<\/em> New York Times Book Review<em>. His cartoons, illustrations, covers, and comics reporting have appeared in <\/em>The New Yorker<em>, <\/em>Harper\u2019s<em>, <\/em>The New Republic<em>, <\/em>New York<em>, <\/em>GQ<em>, and many other magazines and newspapers. His honors include two Gold Medals and two Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators; the Premio Satira Politica Forte dei Marmi 2005 from the Museum of Satire and Caricature in Forte dei Marmi, Italy; a Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild of New York; and the Augustus Saint-Gaudens alumni career award from the Cooper Union. He was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and lives in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/macdoodle-street?variant=9282305261620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MacDoodle St.<\/a><em>, by Mark Alan Stamaty, published by New York Review Comics.<\/em><em>\u00a0Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Mark Alan Stamaty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Alan Stamaty reveals why he never revisited the world of his weekly \u2018Village Voice\u2019 comic strip \u2018MacDoodle 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