Bob Staake (born September 26, 1957 in Los Angeles) is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod. After drawing editorial cartoons while at West High School in Torrance, California, Staake attended the University of Southern California (1977) on a journalism/international relations scholarship. He interned at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's Students Press Law Center. Cartoons and illustration Artwork by Staake has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Easy Reader, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated Kids, Time, USA Today, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His illustrations have appeared in advertising for numerous companies, including American Express, the Cartoon Network, Dr Pepper, Hallmark Cards, Kenner Toys, McDonald's, Nickelodeon, Ralston Purina, Sony and United Airlines. Starting in 1993, Staake contributed concepts and cartoons to "The Style Invitational", a humor competition at The Washington Post. In 1995, he became a regular contributor to Mad. He created many covers for The New Yorker, beginning with the September 4, 2006 issue. Staake is noted for using vintage software to create his illustrations. He currently uses Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on Classic in Mac OS X. Books Staake began as a book illustrator in 1992 when he contributed to Jay Leno's Headlines (Warner Books). In 1998, he wrote and illustrated his first book for children, My Little 1 2 3 Book (Little Simon), a 26-page board book. He followed with numerous books for children, including The Red Lemon, named by The New York Times as one of the ten best illustrated children's books of 2006. In The Complete Book of Caricature (North Light Books, 1991). Staake explained how a subject's personality is incorporated into a drawing and provided reference materials, along with samples of caricaturists, including David Levine, Mort Drucker and Ralph Steadman. In 1990, 1991 and 1993, Staake wrote and co-edited the Humor and Cartoon Markets series of resource books listing magazines, newsletters, greeting card companies and other publishers who purchase humorous illustrations. In 1996, for The Complete Book of Humorous Art (North Light), he interviewed 20 illustrators, including Gary Baseman, Lou Brooks and Elwood Smith. In September 2016 Bob Staake released under the pseudonym Arthur Gackley a book of children's book covers for adults entitled Bad Little Children's Books. Three months after release blogger Kelly Jensen at Book Riot critiqued