Cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty on "MacDoodle Street" and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We're thrilled to share our conversation with cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty. We're huge fans of his children's book – "Who Needs Donuts?" Mark's wonderfully illustrated book tells the story of a kid in a cowboy suit who's bored with his family. He hitches up his wagon and heads out for the big city in search of donuts. After a wild adventure he realizes there are things far greater than donuts. It's a charming and hilarious book for kids. And, trust us, adults will love it, too! Mark Alan Stamaty gives us the scoop on his new anthology collection and how his childhood influenced his work. Plus, where he gets the silly ideas for his stories and illustrations like rhinos on the subway wearing fancy hats or shark-shaped cars!

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1:09.9	Mark Allen's Stammity was born in a big city. They big city, real. Brooklyn, New York. His
1:23.2	family moved out to Jersey when he was about three, which was a quieter place where his parents
1:27.6	could work in peace and raise a family. His mother was a cartoonist and his father was also a
1:34.5	cartoonist. And so Mark grew up and he became a cartoonist, a great one. He got jobs making comic
1:43.1	strips for newspapers, washing tune, a political strip, which ran for many years, a few regular
1:49.7	comics in the New York Review of Books, and MacDoodle Street, which he published in the Village Voice.
1:56.2	MacDoodle Street was just released as an anthology collection. It's really remarkable.
2:01.0	In MacDoodle Street, you see New York kind of the way a kid from just outside the city might,
2:06.4	as a wild, bizarre, fantastic place. Overwhelming, but also endlessly fascinating and stimulating.
2:14.4	Rhino's on the subway wearing fancy hats, cars shaped like sharks, and every corner of every panel
2:22.8	filled with action. Anyway, all of that is to say I am really glad to have Mark on Bullseye.
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