{"product_id":"9781681373423","title":"MacDoodle St.","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of legendary absurdist comic strips about life in 1970s New York City, now available in print for the first time in over thirty years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery week, from 1978 to 1980, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e brought a new installment of Mark Alan Stamaty's uproarious, endlessly inventive strip \u003ci\u003eMacDoodle St.\u003c\/i\u003e Centering more or less on Malcolm Frazzle, a blocked poet struggling to complete his latest lyric for \u003ci\u003eDishwasher Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, Stamaty's creation encompassed a dizzying array of characters, stories, jokes, and digressions. One week might feature the ongoing battle between irate businessmen and bearded beatniks for control of a Greenwich Village coffee shop, the next might reveal a dastardly plot involving a genetically engineered dishwashing monkey, or the frustrated dreams of an irascible, over-caffeinated painter, or the mysterious visions of a duffle-coated soothsayer on the bus. Not to mention the variable moods and longings of the comic strip itself.... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd somehow, in the end, it all fits together. \u003ci\u003eMacDoodle St. \u003c\/i\u003eis more than just a hilarious weekly strip; it is a great comic novel, a thrilling, surprising, unexpectedly moving ode to art, life, and New York City. This new edition features a brand-new, twenty-page autobiographical comic by Stamaty explaining what happened next and why \u003ci\u003eMacDoodle St. \u003c\/i\u003enever returned, in a unique, funny, and poignant look at the struggles and joys of being an artist.","brand":"Stamaty, Mark Alan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":67854986805460,"sku":"9781681373423","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_99ae3b4f-18dd-4d32-9578-5309fc12b5d8.jpg?v=1792443015","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781681373423","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}