Cartoonist to highlight decades of ‘Real Life Funnies’

By Tom Gambardella

For over 20 years at The Village Voice, Stan Mack chronicled life in New York City “from the sidewalk up,” as he put it, observing the everyday lives of New Yorkers and writing down what he saw for a weekly comic strip titled, “Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies.” Mack’s work ran in the Voice until 1995 and was published in an anthology last year. Now, Mack is returning to the Rivertowns for a talk at the Hastings Public Library, where he will provide audiences a behind-the-scenes look at some of his subjects and where they are now.