Published by the Village Voice for more than 20 years, Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, an irresistibly entertaining weekly comic strip that plunged the reader into the kaleidoscopic urban life of New York City, has been collected into a single impressive volume: Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995. Roaming the streets of New York with notebook and pen, Mack wrote down the real-life banter accompanying the New York City rat race, offering hilarious glimpses of nearly every aspect of city life—artists, businessmen, criminals, drag queens, and immigrants—endering their antics in delightfully scratchy drawings that vividly depict life in Gotham. In these five pages, Mack offers a cleverly marked map of Tompkins Square Park from 1988, tales of growing up Jamaican in NYC, stories of the bookstore business, and more. Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995 by Stan Mack is out now from Fantagraphics Underground.