Mark Alan Stamaty talks about turning his Macdoodle St. comic strip into a graphic novel. (4/3/19)
Every week, from 1978–1979, The Village Voice brought a new installment of Mark Alan Stamaty’s uproarious, endlessly inventive strip “MacDoodle St.” Centering more or less on Malcolm Frazzle, a blocked poet struggling to complete his latest lyric for Dishwasher Monthly, Stamaty’s creation encompassed a dizzying array of characters, stories, jokes and digressions. In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Mark Alan Stamaty talks about the process of turning his beloved strip into a graphic novel that New York Review Books calls “a thrilling, surprising, unexpectedly moving ode to art, life, and New York City.”