#blown covers

[thefugitivesaint]

Denis Zilber, 'Paying Taxes', ''Illustrators'', #12, 2015 Entry for the 'Blown Covers' contest for the 'The New Yorker'.

[ahumbleprofessor]

I just finished a book on "New Yorker" covers titled Blown Covers, written by Fancoise Mouly, and this one just struck me as one worth sharing.

It's titled "Spring is in the Air" by Istvan Banyai. Unlike most of the covers (and sketches of unused covers) in the book, this one mostly captures a mood rather than political or social commentary.

[toon-books]

OPEN CALL FOR FUNNY, INTERESTING IMAGES

This is what gets our blood boiling:

GUNS

THE MELTING OF THE ICE CAPS

ANIMAL FARMING

THE 1 PERCENT

These are the topics most on our mind these days, so if you're an artist who feels strongly about any of these topics, please send us images. THE MOST ARRESTING will be featured here, in our AGITPROP section, and on our social media.

We look forward to seeing what you come up with,

Françoise Mouly & the TOON team

(Submit by clicking the link in the sidebar.) 

[millionsmillions]

"In a 1937 essay in the Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald lamented that the typical New Yorker writer 'has given up the struggle to make sense out of a world which daily grows more complicated. His stock of data is strictly limited to the inconsequential.' [...] To pigeonhole The New Yorker as a comfy cultural consumer item for moneyed liberals — tempting as it is — ignores the magazine’s long history of publishing abrasive and subversive works of art and reportage amid more wishy-washy fare."

—Jeet Heer reviews Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant To See

[vincentdesjardinsdraws]

One of my entries for the current Blown Covers contest was named Runner-Up #12. The theme was 'Global Warming.'  Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

[vincentdesjardinsdraws]

This is another of my entries for the most recent 'Blown Covers' contest.  This is actually an older image of mine that I reconfigured and cropped to fit the magazine's cover size. Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

[vincentdesjardinsdraws]

This was my other entry for this week's 'Blown Covers' contest.  This week the theme was fashion.  My other entry made it to 4th Runner-up. Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

[bbcnews-blog]

The New Yorker covers we were never meant to see

The New Yorker magazine, created in 1925, is famous in the US and around the world for both the diversity of its writing and the cartoons that grace its front cover.

In Francoise Mouly's new book, Blown Covers, the New Yorker art director takes readers on a visual tour of some of the more striking images that never made it to print.

Ms Mouly says: "I work with cartoonists who try to come up with funny images that are capturing everything that's happening around us.

"But in order to do that, I have to do a very, very difficult job, which is choose one out of the many."

Over her 19 years at the magazine, Ms Mouly estimates she has rejected as many as 10,000 cover images.

(via BBC News - The New Yorker covers we were never meant to see)