Stan Mack! Real Life Funnies! Crazy Eddie! Thanks for the reminder about those brilliant comics. I just ordered the book. It will be a kind of cabinet of curiosities for my years in NYC (1978-1993). From the burned-out chaos of the pre-Regan years to the rise of homelessness to the decimation of AIDS to the Disneyfication of Times Square and SoHo. Yet always New York. Always changing.
It's great to see any remaining publication with a regional focus or sense of place. When I moved to Boston—which was only 15 years ago!—the city was spoiled with local weeklies: The Boston Phoenix, Dig Boston, The Improper Bostonian, Metro Boston, Stuff. Not a single one of these exists today.
Stan Mack! Real Life Funnies! Crazy Eddie! Thanks for the reminder about those brilliant comics. I just ordered the book. It will be a kind of cabinet of curiosities for my years in NYC (1978-1993). From the burned-out chaos of the pre-Regan years to the rise of homelessness to the decimation of AIDS to the Disneyfication of Times Square and SoHo. Yet always New York. Always changing.
It's great to see any remaining publication with a regional focus or sense of place. When I moved to Boston—which was only 15 years ago!—the city was spoiled with local weeklies: The Boston Phoenix, Dig Boston, The Improper Bostonian, Metro Boston, Stuff. Not a single one of these exists today.