Mark Alan Stamaty

Cartooning During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Stamaty's work appeared regularly in the Village Voice. His first regular comic strip was MacDoodle Street, which ran in the Voice from 1978 to 1979. Centered on the misadventures of aspiring poet Malcolm Frazzle and a large cast of Greenwich Village eccentrics, the strip combined absurdist humor, dense visual detail, and serialized storytelling in a satirical portrait of New York City life. The entire run of the strip was collected in 2019 by The New York Review of Books.

In 1980–1981, Stamaty performed with the all-cartoonist comedy band Ben Day & the Zipatones. Other band members included founder Lou Brooks, Bill Plympton, Elwood Smith, and Skip Johnston, art director of National Lampoon. The band headlined at the 1981 Artists and Models Ball at Irving Plaza, New York City, to an audience of 1,500 artists for the benefit of the Graphic Artists Guild.

Stamaty created the long-running political satire comic strip Washingtoon in 1981, originally for The Washington Post. The strip centered on fictional Congressman Bob Forehead and other recurring figures in Washington, D.C. In the strip, Stamaty lampooned politicians, lobbyists, journalists, and the institutions of American government. Ultimately, Washingtoon was syndicated to "more than 40 newspapers, including The Boston Globe, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Austin-American Statesman." The strip ran until the mid-1990s;

In 1996–1997, his online strip Doodlennium ran in Slate magazine, a publication for which Stamaty also provided spot illustrations.

Stamaty produced a monthly comic strip in the New York Times Book Review called Boox in 2001–2004 that made fun of publishing trends.

He was commissioned to provide an illustration for the interior of retailer Sonos's new store in New York City's SoHo district, which opened in July 2016.

In 2018, Stamaty drew the cover for Delancey St. Station, the debut album by NYC rock band Pinc Louds.

Children's books work Stamaty's work in the children's book field include Yellow Yellow (1971, with author Frank Asch, reissued in 2019 by Drawn & Quarterly); Minnie Maloney & Macaroni (1976); and the cult classic Who Needs Donuts?, originally published in 1973 and reprinted by Random House in 2003.

Legacy and influence In 2012, cartoonist Jeffrey Brown told USA Today about how Stamaty's Small in the Saddle had influenced his own career and about subsequently meeting the author.

Awards and honors Stamaty's honors include two Gold Medals and a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators,