Having been the primary and incidental subject of a few of Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies, I applaud his genius for finding the wit in any situation, including those where the humor was not so obvious.--Steven Heller

Back in the day, Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies was a weekly treat that became addictive to many readers, including Voice writers like me. We couldn't turn away from the words and images so innocently set down by the wandering artist as he overheard New Yorkers blurting out the social, political, sexual, and status anxieties of a generation. Indelibly candid, funny, startling, and occasionally even profound, these vignettes depict a magical lost metropolis that forever shaped our culture.--Joe Conason (journalist, author, and former Village Voice staff writer)

How great to discover that I got in on the Stan Mack ground floor -- he was only two years into his 21-year tenure at the Village Voice when I, age 21, arrived in New York and became a weekly Village Voice reader, happily gobbling up every installment of Real Life Funnies. The strip's singular comedy-reality hybrid depicted and defined the city of my youth, shaping my sensibility then, still amusing and charming me now.--Kurt Andersen

Thank goodness we have Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies to remind us that New York was once a wild, weird, creative place filled with people who always had something interesting to say. And thank goodness Stan Mack was around to hear them say it.--Jeremiah Moss (author of Feral City and Vanishing New York)

Mack's greatest strength is his journalistic, empathetic approach to memorializing the metropolitan zeitgeist.-- "Kirkus Reviews"

This hefty and hilarious anthology collects more than 300 of Mack's Village Voice strips depicting conversations overheard on the streets of New York. Like a crowded apartment building, the volume's chock-full of stubborn individuality, and the joy and pathos of urban life.-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review"

For more than 30 years Mack took pencils, pens, and sketchbooks to bars, restaurants, art galleries, movie queues, sex clubs, parks, and anywhere else New York's denizens gathered. Now, 50 years later, hundreds of Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies have been transmuted from yellowed newsprint into big glossy pages between hardcovers.-- "Village Voice"

Whether you're a longtime fan of the strip or a complete neophyte, this amusing stroll through New York history offers a wealth of indelible scenarios.-- "Cinema Sentries"