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...There are plenty of cartoonists satirizing the Washington political scene. But none do it with the singular blend of whimsy and insight of Mark Alan Stamaty, whose cartoon strip Washingtoon has appeared in scores of newspapers across the country for more than a decade. With this issue, Stamaty brings Washingtoon exclusively to TIME, where it will appear each week in the Chronicles section. "Mark's arrival is a natural step for us," says Chronicles editor Bruce Handy. "The section already looks at news from a 90 degrees angle. And TIME has long nurtured the individual voices of essayists and columnists...
...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 published two book-length collections of Washingtoon and has seen it become the basis for a cable-TV series in the 1980s...
...tell. As cable fights for viewers in the competitive TV marketplace, it is turning increasingly to sitcoms and other network-style series. 1st & Ten, which debuted in August, follows the fortunes of a struggling pro football team owned by a sexy divorcee. Showtime's newest entry is Washingtoon, a sitcom about a naive freshman Senator. The Disney Channel last season scored with Still the Beaver, an update of the old network comedy Leave It to Beaver, and this month introduced Danger Bay, an adventure series about a family that saves animals in peril. The USA Network has just unveiled...
...newest cable sitcoms are even less adventurous. Washingtoon, which stars Tom Callaway as the dippy legislator, promises a biting look at the ways of Washington, but its political satire is toothless and its performers charmless. In 1st & Ten, the curvaceous team owner (Delta Burke) talks football as if she were reading a foreign language phonetically, and the gridiron goons who surround her (a womanizing quarterback, a dumb lineman named Bubba, an oily general manager in cahoots with the Mob) are well past sitcom retirement age. The bottom drawer in comedy's bargain basement, however, belongs to the new sitcoms showing...
...attitude spawned and fed by the kind of thinking. Stamaty satirizes in "Washingtoon" when a Pentagon official testifying at a committee hearing says: "At present, Soviet defense spending causes 85 percent more damage to the Soviet economy than U.S. defense spending does to the U.S. economy. The gap is unacceptable, it must be closed...