New Yorker contributors Jules Feiffer, Liza Donnelly and Bob Staake join a large number of authors, August 30th. Info here.
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Book of Interest: Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics; New Yorker’s Weiner cover
Coming from Rodale Press in September, Marion Nestle’s Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics. The book is loaded with cartoons. Contributing New Yorker artists include Rina Piccolo, Liza Donnelly, Mike Twohy, and New Yorker cover artist, Bob Staake. Rina Piccolo’s website Liza Donnelly’s website Mike Twohy is currently the New Yorker’s
Read moreAndrzej Czeczot: 1933 -2012; Blown Covers, live
The News (news from Poland), May 9, 2012, “Satirical cartoonist Andrzej Czeczot dies” (Czeczot’s “Manhattan” a four page spread of drawings, appeared in The New Yorker, June 9, 1986). From The Gothamist, May 9, 2012, “More Rejected New Yorker Covers Revealed, Explained”
Read moreNew York Times: The demise of sports cartoons; Bob Staake at USC; Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Fest 2012
Richard Sandomir has written a great (but sad) piece for The New York Times on the demise of sports cartooning, “Lost Occupation, Lost Art as Sports Cartooning Declines” — sorry, no link: check out the NYTs homepage, scroll down to INSIDE NYTS.COM and look for the sports illustration. From dailytrojan.com, April 19, 2012, “Cartoonist Bob Staake began his career
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