Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Alan Stamaty

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty.

Last updated on November 19, 2024.

Mark Alan Stamaty is an American cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator. During the 1980s and 1990s, Stamaty's work appeared regularly in the Village Voice. He is the creator of the long-running comic strip Washingtoon – on which a short-lived (12-episode) 1985 Showtime Network television series was based – as well as the earlier comic strip MacDoodle Street, and the online strip Doodlennium for Slate magazineHe is also a spot illustrator for Slate. He produced a monthly comic strip in the New York Times Book Review called "Boox" in 2001–2004 that made fun of publishing trends. Stamaty graduated with a degree in art from the Cooper Union in New York.

American - Cartoonist | Born: 1947

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My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.

Mark Alan Stamaty

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

Mark Alan Stamaty

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

Mark Alan Stamaty

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

Mark Alan Stamaty

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

Mark Alan Stamaty

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

Mark Alan Stamaty

I like to follow my own muse.

Mark Alan Stamaty

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Mark Alan Stamaty

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.