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Bob Staake -- not actual color (above)
A typical Bob Staake cereal box from the 1990's (above)
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FREEBIES was created by Bob Staake. Staake's illustrations, designs and graphics have appeared in The Washington Post, MAD magazine, The New Yorker and countless other publications. He is the author and/or illustrator of over 45 books, the most recent being 'Struwwelpeter' (Fantagraphics) and 'The Red Lemon' (Random House and Golden Books). Staake has produced kid-oriented work for the Disney Channel, MTV/Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Children's Television Workshop. For many years, Staake created games, activities and illustrations for a variety of Ralston Purina cereals -- from Dinersaurs to Ghostbusters, Fruit Islands to Nerds, Chex to Urkel-O's. For a very short time, he was also a design partner in a Limited Liability Corporation that sought to create a cereal-based theme park (no, he's not kidding). It has always been his desire to envision a health-conscious cereal brand that used a humorous character-driven storyline that could both entertain and teach positive valued to kids while appealing to consumers and adults. By blending hip graphics with colorful design, FREEBIES was created to evoke sensibility that it both retro in appeal yet throughly modern. Staake lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts. -- J. Kendall Reid
Staake's website can be found by clicking here
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