SOURCE: A review of Stan Mack's Real Life American Revolution, in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 241, No. 43, October 24, 1994, p. 58.

[In the positive review below, the critic remarks on the subjects covered in Stan Mack's historical book Stan Mack's Real Life American Revolution.]

Longtime Village Voice cartoonist [Stan] Mack has taken his talent for rendering the frenzied variety of life in New York City and produced a cheerful and informative history of the American Revolution [entitled Stan Mack's Real Life American Revolution]. Delightfully illustrated in his distinctive minimalist cartoon style, Mack's first original book-length effort puts the "real life" back into our revolutionary roots, providing capsule portraits of the prominent activists of the time, along with their many idiosyncracies, comic flaws and strategic bungling. He provides amusing sketches of early anti-British activists like James Otis and Sam Adams, notes the nature of the Enlightenment and New England Puritanism and outlines the...