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
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Next Week’s New Yorker Cover We haven’t seen an early released New Yorker cover for some time (they usually don’t appear until Monday morning). Here’s Eric Drooker’s for next week’s issue. Read more here. _________________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Liana Finck From The Comics Journal, May 26, 2022: “Liana Finck’s Skeptical Mythologizing” by Andrew Field. Ms.Finck began contributing to The New
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The Cover: Bob Staake’s 24th New Yorker cover (early-released mid-week last) is a tribute to the late RBG. You can read an interesting Q&A with him here about coming up with the idea. Visit Mr. Staake’s website. The Cartoonists: Eighteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt, who wears many hats, among them cartoonist, has a Sketchbook on page 41). This week’s
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Early Release: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover Every once in awhile The New Yorker early releases a timely cover. This is one of those times. Here’s Bob Staake‘s RBG cover for the issue out next Monday. __________________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: James Stevenson Film Doc Producer From The Block Island Times, September 17, 2020, “The Life And Art Of Jim Stevenson
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