Word: elberon
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Stamaty, whose mother and father were both cartoonists, grew up in Elberon, New Jersey, and "always kind of knew I would be an artist and a writer, except when I was 14 and wanted to be a baseball player." That aberration passed, and Stamaty went on to earn a fine-arts degree from Cooper Union in New York City. After illustrating several children's books in the 1970s, he produced comic strips for the Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since...