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
Read moreI’ve always worked at home, sometimes in a dedicated corner of the living room, sometimes using the arm of any old comfortable chair as a desk. But for many years I worked in a converted 6′ x 8′ laundry room. My desk faced a wall, part of which is shown above. One day, after about twenty years of working in
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. This week’s cover (by R. Kikuo Johnson, who we learn from the Contributors page teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design) is of robots on their way to wherever robots go to. One has an on-the-go cup of coffee(?)
Read moreSharp-eyed New Yorker cartoon followers will notice that the magazine recently ran two Bat-Signal drawings: one by Danny Shanahan in this most recent issue, and one last week by Ben Schwartz. A quick glance at the magazine’s Cartoon Bank archive turned up only two previous efforts, but I have a feeling
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