MacDoodle St.

First, for me, was Washingtoon, Mark Alan Stamaty's '80s comic strip, starring Congressman Bob Forehead, that was just nutty enough to help me make sense of the Reagan Era as a teenager. Then, to my unending gratitude, I discovered Who Needs Donuts?, the picture book fabulously packed with donuts, heart, and birds with horse heads that launched Stamaty's career in 1973. Now, resurrected, comes the work he did in between: MacDoodle St., a weekly celebration of Greenwich Village weirdness circa 1978-79, similarly jam-packed with his sweet-hearted satire and deliriously populated cityscapes in which—and I mean this as very high praise—the donut-loving Sam and Mr. Bikferd would feel right at home.