Word: washingtoon
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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...