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The New Yorker: Behind the Cover

I enjoyed this look at the editorial making of a New Yorker cover starring the magazine’s art editor Françoise Mouly, and artists Dan Clowes, Zohar Lazar, and Mark Ulriksen.

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    While I'm a huge fan of Clowes and can dig Lazar and Ulriksen, I think these covers are rather ill-conceived. Even leaving room for the New Yorker's often trite whimsy and the attempt here to pay homage to their depression-era covers, there seems to be a kind of blinkered disconnect from reality. (Ugh – sorry for using “disconnect.”) I doubt that many Park Avenue types are tragically reduced to eating burgers, and even if they were – so what? The middle class and the working poor are taking the hardest hits, and while there's nothing really winkingly whimsical to glean from that, these covers come across as, at best, the easy way out and at worst, totally lacking perspective.

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    Not really surprised :D