Exhibit Of Interest: Bob Staake
The Spill occasionally notes events of non-cartoonist New Yorker artists. The Cape Cod Museum of Art is currently showing the work of Bob Staake, who has contributed a number of New Yorker covers over the years (23 according to his website, from 2006 through 2020, thus far), including the one shown top right from the issue of November 17, 2008.
Screenshot of the opening:
The Daily Cartoonist has much more here, with a link to a video, and a newspaper article.
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 10-14, 2023
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Adam Douglas Thompson (twice), Zoe Si, Brendan Loper, Adam Sacks.
Cartoons About Therapy From The Past Century (Well, Almost)
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Salvador Dali’s Surreal Summer In The City”
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More Early Influences
Last week I Spilled a volume of Prince Valiant comic strips, noting how the art of that strip (and “Blondie”) influenced my very young self (young like six, seven, eight years old). Here are some more influences from the early years right up into my teens (when underground artists, especially Robert Crumb, became very interesting to me).
Superman and Batman were always somewhat tied for my attention (comic book buying-wise). I bought used copies of MAD in the same used bookstore where I bought comic books. The Dave Berg collection you see in the photo was a fairly recent purchase. He, out of all of MAD’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” was a particular favorite.
Never had any of the Babar books at home; this is where I tip my hat to my then local library (shown left as it looked back when). I used to sit at a table just past the circulation desk, thumbing through those over-sized Babar books. Out of every influence mentioned here, I can still “see” how much of a stamp Dr. Seuss’s work left on my present day drawing (even if no one else can).