Stan Mack is a journalist and cartoonist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Providence. His comic Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies ran in the Village Voice for twenty years. Formerly the art director of the New York Times Magazine, Mack is the author of several young adult nonfiction books and children’s picture books.
Do you know what sign I am? Aries. What’s that? And? So, what do you think? No big deal? And do you know what my conflict is? The drama? Yes, the drama of my life. Misery. What do you say? Now, just…
A Suitor Calls with the Matchmaker. Illustration from Scènes familiales juives (Familiar Jewish Scenes), Alphonse Lévy’s book of caricatures of Alsatian rural Jewish life.
I pray Thee O Lord
From all my heart,
O Lord! I pray to Thee.
With fervor and zeal,
For the sufferings of the humiliated,
For the uncertainty of those who wait;
For the non-return of the dead;
For…