Community Corner
Meet Award-Winning Cartoonist Mark Parisi
Mark Parisi, local resident and award-winning syndicated cartoonist will be signing his 2014 page-a-day off the mark calendar at The Hourglass Gift Gallery, 458 Main Street, Melrose, MA (781)662-1229 from 3-5 pm on Sunday, December 15, 2013.
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Recently, Mark Parisi, was featured on an episode of WCVB’s news show, “Chronicle”. You can view the episode at http://tinyurl.com/Mark-Parisi-Chronicle
The National Cartoonists Society has awarded Mark Parisi’s comic. off the mark, "Best Newspaper Panel" in 2009 and 2012. He has been nominated 4 times. The comic also appears on greeting cards, calendars and other licensed products. His biggest influences include Charles Schulz, MAD Magazine and Gary Larson." Growing up in Gloucester, Mark Parisi was also a big fan and collector of a product called Wacky Packages, which consisted of product parody stickers. Mark is now one of the designers for the modern sets of Wacky Packages for Topps.