these are an incredible crop of covers this time, Thor. I wonder if many overlooked the outdated technology in the ACA/Obamacare rollout cover...which made me literally LOL. simple pleasures.
forgive my ignorance, but has there ever been a formal exhibition of these covers/illustrations/artwork in a proper space and venue?
Magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's and the original Vanity Fair are long gone from our culture, but thankfully we still have one magazine that respects the possibilities of illustration, and wit.
I imagine over the history of the magazine there have been exhibits of New Yorker covers, although I don't know if the originals are owned by the magazine or the artists.
There are several books available where you can appreciate them: The Complete Book of Covers, through 1989 Covering the New Yorker, its recent history through 2000, under Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman (formerly of the alternative comics journal RAW) The Complete New Yorker including a CD-rom of every issue through 2005 -- and currently available for as little as $1, although your computer will need a CD-rom drive Blown Covers, stories about the creation of covers through 2012, including many commissioned or considered but never used
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forgive my ignorance, but has there ever been a formal exhibition of these covers/illustrations/artwork in a proper space and venue?
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Magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's and the original Vanity Fair are long gone from our culture, but thankfully we still have one magazine that respects the possibilities of illustration, and wit.
I imagine over the history of the magazine there have been exhibits of New Yorker covers, although I don't know if the originals are owned by the magazine or the artists.
There are several books available where you can appreciate them:
The Complete Book of Covers, through 1989
Covering the New Yorker, its recent history through 2000, under Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman (formerly of the alternative comics journal RAW)
The Complete New Yorker including a CD-rom of every issue through 2005 -- and currently available for as little as $1, although your computer will need a CD-rom drive
Blown Covers, stories about the creation of covers through 2012, including many commissioned or considered but never used ( ... )
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