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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In Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
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