Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest

or, more accurately, “Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.”

 

by Mike Rhode (updated 12/3 with comments from Bob) 

 

Bob Staake has been illustrating the Style Invitational contest for well over a decade... actually it's been for three of them. Buried in this story about firing the Post's dance critic (another loss as the paper tries to shrink to greatness, AGAIN) is this nugget, "The paper has also eliminated its weekly Style Invitational humor contest, which involved ending the contract of former longtime Post editor and current contributor Pat Myers." Meyers wrote a column herself as well. And Bob wrote in correcting my headline (which is fair - I wrote it to get attention to the grievous loss of yet more cartooning), noting, "I wasn’t “fired,” the Post simply cancelled a humor column that I illustrated. They didn’t cancel ME. It seems to me the more apropos headline would be 'Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.' No matter how you look at it that’s a Hell of a run and all good things must come to an end." Bob is completely accurate, and we regret the misleading headline, but as they say in the news biz, "if it bleeds, it leads."

One of Staake's last illos

Staake has created an illustration for the contest which has run in color in the Style section (NOT the magazine which they also killed this week) since 1992 (or 1994) and has conservatively probably done 1500 cartoons for it over the thirty years. When he wrote to us here in 2009, he also noted that he'd been working for the Post for 25 years at that time, which puts him starting doing work for them in 1984.  You can find ComicsDC's coverage of him here and it goes across multiple pages. At one point when I mentioned him, out of the blue, he sent me a drawing of WWMRD (what would Mike Rhode do?) which hangs over my dining room table. When he was in town for the National Book Festival, after doing the poster for them, I interviewed him for "Illustrator Bob Staake on Dark Humor, New Yorker Covers, and Analog Art in a Digital World," Aug. 28, 2014, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2014/08/28/illustrator-bob-staake-on-dark-humor-new-yorker-covers-and-analog-art-in-a-digital-world/ and it was reprinted in the International Journal of Comic Art.

Empress Meyers writes of him, "To Bob Staake, Gene's and then my visual partner since 1994 — way longer than either of us. Over the decades while Bob gained wide renown as a New Yorker cover artist and bestselling children's book author and illustrator, Bob continued to send a cartoon to the Invite, as "really the only steady job I've ever had." Bob and I have met in person only once — he lives on Cape Cod — but every week we're the Invite version of the Kramdens, bickering and threatening to send each other to the moon, but aww we make up."

The end of this contest is probably the last vestige of all the Miami Herald staff and innovations that actually made the Post a must-read for many years beginning in the 1980s as the Watergate sheen was beginning to wear off. I've never entered the Invitational, but I know many people who have, and am sure the complaints about this have started. Personally, I'll miss seeing Staake's cartoon.

I used to compile a list of cartoonists appearing in local publications back when it was worth doing. Here's one from 2007, of which barely any of the publications still exist, and only Matt Wuerker at Politico is really soldiering on.

Cartoonists in Washington, DC area newspapers as of late May 2007

Washington Post
-Tom Toles - editorial cartoonist (semi-daily)
-Richard Thompson - Richard's Poor Almanac (Saturdays); Cul de Sac strip (Sunday's Magazine), illustrations for Joel Achenbach's Rough Draft column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Rob Shepperson, Tim Grajek - illustrations for Sunday's Business section
-Nick Galifianakis - cartoons for ex-wife Carolyn Hax's Tell Me About It advice column.
-Bob Staake - cartoons for Style Invitational contest (Sunday)
-Patrick M. Reynolds - Flashback comic strip; unique Washington version (Sunday comics)
-Eric Shansby - illustrations for Gene Weingarten's Below the Beltway column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Christopher Gash; Christopher Neimen - spot illos especially on Sunday
-Michael Cavna - editorial cartoons in Arts section, extremely irregularly
-Julie Zhu - Montgomery Blair High School student cartoonist for Extra Credit column in local Extra sections
-Saturday box of syndicated editorial cartoons
-Turkish cartoonist Selcuk Demirel illustrations in Book World, semi-regularly

Of the Post people, 15 years later Richard's dead, we gained Ann Telnaes as an online animated political cartoonist, Toles was replaced by Michael de Adder (on contract from Canada, and they're running his piece too small and in b&w on the opinion page), the Saturday box of 4 political cartoonists is still there, Nick Galifianakis continues to illustrate Carolyn Hax's column albeit from an undisclosed location that's not Northern VA, Reynold's retired his Flashbacks strip this fall, and Cavna and Dave Betancourt cover comics stories but far less than they did when their Comic Riffs blog existed. And the Post has 2 pages of comics daily, down from 3, and printed microscopically, and 1 section of Sunday comics, instead of 2. Awww, get the hell off my lawn already. 

 

Updated: Friend of ComicsDC, cartoonist Clay Jones pointed out that Staake had posted about this on his FB page.

Bob Staake interviewed

The Post runs a comic drawing by Bob Staake every weekend, but he does plenty of other work (especially New Yorker covers). Here's an interview about his new children's book:

Q & A with Bob Staake
By Sally Lodge
Apr 11, 2013
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56759-q-a-with-bob-staake.html

Bob Staake, the Post's Style Invitational cartoonist

Here's a nice, if short, interview with Bob Staake, the Post's Style Invitational cartoonist. Staake's moving into children's books as well as New Yorker covers, but he's got some interesting how-to books out as well, iirc.

See "G FORCE | BOB STAAKE: He's got it covered," Boston Globe November 27, 2008.

Bob Staake featured in today's Post

Bob Staake is featured in today's Washington Post for a decade of weekly contest drawings.

Bob Staake's favorite cartoons of 20 years of Style Invitational
Washington Post March 3 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bob-stakkes-favorite-cartoons-of-20-years-of-style-invitational/2013/02/27/b7c015e2-7b99-11e2-a044-676856536b40_gallery.html#photo=1

Bob Staake establishes the zaniness to the unwary of the Invitational. Bob started illustrating the weekly contest example in 1994, and he's drawn close to 1,000 images.

and a biographical note:

The art (or 'art') of the Invitational
By Pat Myers,
Washington Post (March 3 2013).
online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/the-art-or-art-of-the-invitational/2013/02/28/65239f10-7564-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html

Bob Staake's commercial

Bob Staake appears every weekend in The Post's Style Invitational contest, and he's a guest at this year's Library of Congress' National Book Festival. He's also just done a commercial for Intel. Click the article to read more:

Bob Staake, TV Star

By Shannon Maughan

Jul 22, 2014
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/63388-bob-staake-tv-star.html

Staake tops Time's list

Art Cafe (really?), Bob Staake's webmaster, wrote in to remind me that Staake's New Yorker cartoon was picked as the year's best magazine cover by Time Magazine.

I must say, Staake can work in a bunch of styles. This cover is nothing like what he does for the Post on Sundays, and I've got some of his how-to books which are well-worth having.

Bob Staake contest in Washington Post

Style Invitational Week 937: Staake it to Bob in a picture book caption contest

By Pat Myers
Washington Post September 18 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/style-invitational-week-937-staake-it-to-bob-in-a-picture-book-caption-contest/2011/09/11/gIQA5AQVWK_story.html

In this week's contest, Style Invitational illustrator Bob Staake was going to tweak the work of some famous New Yorker cartoonists, much as he did for us back in 1998. But now that Bob is now a New Yorker cover boy himself, not to mention a disturbingly successful, Cape Cod waterfront-residing children's-book author and illustrator, we decided instead to make fun of Bob's own oeuvre. This week: Write a caption for any of the five pages or details pictured above from some of Bob's more than 50 picture books. (His name's pronounced "stack," by the way.)

Winner gets the Inker, the official Style Invitational trophy. Second place gets a prize custom-made for the Invite: a dress sewn from two classic Loser T-shirts by Loser Barbara Turner. It even has pockets. But you have to be fairly petite — it's about a size 8. Before lunch. Modeled at a Loser brunch by "Loser groupie" Denise Sudell.

Cartoonists at National Book Festival

Nice list: Bob Staake, Jules Feiffer, Rep. John Lewis, Gene Luen Yang, Jeffrey Brown, Liza Donnelly, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Dav Pilkey

April 10, 2014

Kai Bird, Kate DiCamillo, Francisco Goldman, Alice McDermott Among Authors at 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival

Renowned Illustrator Bob Staake Will Create Festival Poster Art

A wealth of authors, poets and illustrators for readers of all ages—including such writers as Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes, Peter Baker, Ishmael Beah, Kai Bird, Billy Collins, Kate DiCamillo, Francisco Goldman, Henry Hodges, Siri Hustvedt, Cynthia Kadohata, U.S. Reps. John Lewis and James Clyburn, Alice McDermott, George Packer, Lisa See, Maria Venegas, and Gene Luen Yang—will thrill book-lovers at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival. The festival, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

The festival for the first time in its history will hold evening hours, with special events between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. including a poetry slam, a session featuring "Great Books to Great Movies," and a "super-session" for graphic-novel enthusiasts. The theme of this year’s festival is "Stay Up With a Good Book."

The festival’s new location also facilitates an expanded selection of genre pavilions. In addition to the longtime pavilions History & Biography, Fiction & Mystery, Poetry & Prose, Children’s, Contemporary Life, Teens and Special Programs, this year’s festival also will offer new pavilions focused on Science, Culinary Arts, Small Press/International and for children, Picture Books.

"The world of books always offers us something new. This year, the Library’s National Book Festival will return the favor, offering our fresh approach to the world of books," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

Authors who have accepted the Library’s invitation to speak and sign books at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival also include Bob Adelman, Paul Auster, Andrea Beaty, Eula Biss, Kendare Blake, Paul Bogard, Jeffrey Brown, Peter Brown, Eric H. Cline, Bryan Collier, Raúl Colón, James Conaway, Ilene Cooper, Jerry Craft, H. Allen Day, Liza Donnelly, Margaret Engle, Percival Everett, Jules Feiffer, David Theodore George, Carla Hall, Molly Idle, Peniel E. Joseph, Nick Kotz, Nina Krushcheva, Louisa Lim, Eric Litwin, Adrienne Mayor, Meg Medina, Claire Messud, Anchee Min, Elizabeth Mitchell, Richard Moe, John Moeller, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Alicia Ostriker, Laura Overdeck, Dav Pilkey, Paisley Rekdal, Amanda Ripley, Cokie Roberts, Ilyasah Shabazz, Lynn Sherr, Brando Skyhorse, Vivek Tiwary, David Treuer, Ann Ursu, Lynn Weise, Rita Williams-Garcia, Natasha Wimmer, Jacqueline Woodson and Tiphanie Yanique.

Details about the Library of Congress National Book Festival can be found on its website at www.loc.gov/bookfest. The website offers a variety of features, and new material will be added to the website as authors continue to join this year’s stellar lineup.

Among those notables, Alice McDermott, born in Brooklyn and educated in New York and New Hampshire, won the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel "Charming Billy" (1998). Her latest novel is "Someone" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013). McDermott’s other novels include "A Bigamist’s Daughter" (1983), "That Night" (1987), "At Weddings and Wakes" (1992), "Child of My Heart" (2002) and "After This" (2006). McDermott, who also writes extensively for The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Washington Post, is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Kai Bird is the author of the soon-to-be-released "The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames" (Crown/Random House). He also wrote "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978" (2010) and was co-author with Martin J. Sherwin of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (2005), which additionally won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Duff Cooper Prize for History in London. A contributing editor of The Nation, Bird is also the author of the books "The Chairman: John J. McCloy, the Making of the American Establishment" (1992) and "The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy & William Bundy, Brothers in Arms" (1998).

Kate DiCamillo, the Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, wrote "Because of Winn-Dixie" (a Newbery Honor book), "A Tiger Rising" (a National Book Award finalist), "The Tale of Despereaux" (the 2003 Newbery Medal winner) and "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" (winner of the Boston Globe Horn Book Award), among others. Her most recent book, a New York Times best-seller, is "Flora & Ulysses" (Candlewick Press, 2013).

Francisco Goldman’s most recent novel is "Say Her Name," which won the 2011 Prix Femina Étranger. His novel "The Long Night of White Chickens" was awarded the American Academy's Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Goldman’s novels have been finalists for several prizes, including The PEN/Faulkner Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other books include "The Ordinary Seaman," "The Divine Husband," "The Art of Political Murder" and "The Interior Circuit." Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and a Berlin Fellow at the American Academy. He has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's and other publications. He directs the Aura Estrada Prize. Goldman teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

Well-known artist and illustrator Bob Staake has designed the artwork for this year’s Library of Congress National Book Festival poster, a collector’s item throughout the 14-year life of the festival.

Staake has been the author or illustrator of more than 60 books, including "The Donut Chef," "Bluebird," "Bugs Galore," "Hello Robots," "Look! A Book," "This Is Not A Pumpkin," "Pets Go Pop" and others. He has also illustrated extensively for magazines, including several covers for The New Yorker, and for newspapers and advertising.

The festival’s new setting will offer many familiar and popular activities. Representatives from across the United States and its territories will celebrate their unique literary offerings in the Pavilion of the States. The Let’s Read America area will offer reading activities that are fun for the whole family. The Library of Congress Pavilion will showcase treasures in the Library’s vast online collections and offer information about Library programs.

The 2014 National Book Festival is made possible through the generous support of National Book Festival Board Co-Chairman David M. Rubenstein; Charter Sponsors the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Washington Post and Wells Fargo; Patrons the National Endowment for the Arts and PBS KIDS; Contributor Scholastic Inc. and—in the Friends category—the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge. Many of the Library’s rich resources and treasures may be accessed through its website, www.loc.gov.

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Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/2/22

 

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Bob Staake

[After 29 years of illustrating the Style Invitational, The Washington Post has killed the weekly humor/wordplay contest.]

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https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1136107713/strange-world-journeys-to-the-center-of-an-animated-earth

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/12/20221201_pchh_cf63229a-1fe1-419d-871f-c34023d12dec.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1136107713

Read a long, but interesting, Bob Staake interview, pre-National Book Festival

Illustrator Bob Staake on Dark Humor, New Yorker Covers, and Analog Art in a Digital World

 by Mike Rhode on Aug. 28, 2014
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2014/08/28/illustrator-bob-staake-on-dark-humor-new-yorker-covers-and-analog-art-in-a-digital-world/

National Book Festival interviews Bob Staake

Bob Staake: 2014 National Book Festival

http://loc.gov/podcasts/bookfest14/podcast_staake.html

http://loc.gov/podcasts/bookfest14/transcripts/pod-NBF14_staake.pdf

Speaker: Bob Staake
Series: 2014 National Book Festival
Date: July 28, 2014
Running Time: 11:08 minutes

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Bob Staake and the Mannassas Symphony Orchestra

Staake tells the story of the Orchestra adapting four of his picture books to music on his Facebook page -

Bob Staake

["In 2010 I received an email from Jim Villani, conductor of the Manassas (VA) Symphony Orchestra."]

December 24 2022

https://www.facebook.com/bobstaake/posts/pfbid029NqfdtCSNRTg7bXPVNctKwkxzYy9fur75n1atsGhv91xVEAR5frzqQz7tNiP3rRhl