Contents
Prologue: A String Without a Kite
1. Just a Zit
2. Bring Your Own Chair
3. Love in the Afternoon
4. The Best of Times
5. Indeterminate Focal Abnormality
6. The Elephant in the Room
7. Overtaken
8. The Angels Come Calling
9. Dancing in the Dark
10. Joke's Over, You Can Come Back Now
Epilogue: Forever Janetized
Stan Mack is a writer-cartoonist who pioneered the form of "real
life" cartooning with his notorious New York comic strip, "Stan
Mack's Real Life Funnies," which ran in The Village
Voice for nearly 20 years. His Adweek strip, "Stan
Mack's Outtakes," covered the media scene for a decade. He has used
his trademark cartoon style in several nonfiction books including
two graphic histories, The Story of the Jews: A 4,00 Year
Adventure and Stan Mack's Real Life American Revolution.
He is also the co-author with his late partner Janet Bode, of
several hard-hitting nonfiction books for and about teenagers,
including Heartbreak and Roses, Hard Times, and For
Better, For Worse.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Mack started his
career as art director of The New York Herald
Tribune's groundbreaking Book Week before joining
in The New York Times as art director of The New
York Times Sunday Magazine and then The New York Times
Book Review. He has also written and/or illustrated a number of
children's books including the best-selling 10 Bears in My
Bed.
Barbara Ehrenreich author, Nickel and Dimed It wasn't easy for me
to read Janet and Me because the book brought back my own breast
cancer experience so vividly, but I'm glad I did read it, because
it taught me a new trick -- how to giggle and cry at the same time.
Thank you, Stan -- and Janet!
Jennie Nash author, The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops
Coming and Other Lessons I Learned from Breast Cancer Only an
artist at the top of his game -- and the bottom of his life --
could come up with such a quirky mix of realistic, humorous, tragic
detail. It charmed my socks off.
Gloria Steinem author, Moving Beyond Words Stan Mack shows that a
man can be as caretaking as a woman, and a woman can be as brave,
funny, and loving in death as in life. This compassionate,
irresistible memoir is a gift to all of us.
Joyce Brabner coauthor, with Harvey Pekar, Our Cancer Year Stan has
written and drawn from the heart something for caretakers, the
left-behind, the ones wounded in the crossfire of cancer or
terminal illness. He speaks to those in love now who would also be
in love even after tomorrow is over, by telling an honest story
about quality of life, dying, and survival.
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