Joy In Excess: The Overflowing Art of Mark Alan Stamaty
Two new books — a reissue of 1971's Yellow Yellow and a compilation of Stamaty's MacDoodle Street newspaper strips — highlight the artist's joyful ability to imagine the world the way kids do.
For about a year in the late '70s, Mark Alan Stamaty showed readers how to see their city as a child would. His weekly strip "MacDoodle Street" presented life in New York City as an intricate, kaleidoscopic melee of odd people and outlandish happenings. Nothing was dingy or ordinary in Stamaty's city. Every passerby was remarkable, every block animated by collisions between disparate lives. Each new street corner offered the questing mind an opportunity to tell
