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Apologies to the poor schlub who had to slap together this past week's New Yorker cover-- his rendition of the Cheney shooting incident was just weak weak weak. We much prefer the alternate cover that got shelved-- a nod to the Mardi Gras currently underway in New Orleans. CartoonBrew has the first-hand account by Bill Joyce, who drew the abandoned cover:
The editors were very pleased with the results. The proof looked great. Some friends cried when I showed it to them.The image did what I'd hoped. It made people from here sad and proud at the same time.
I was hoping it would, I don't know, somehow help. Help call attention to our plight. Help people understand us.
Then Dick Cheney shot his friend instead of a bird.
A more topical cover was cobbled together. A clever twist on Cheney's folly.
I've had covers at the New Yorker bumped before. That's just part of the game. But this one really mattered. The hurricanes have turned the people of Louisiana into activists. We no longer have the luxury of emotional distance with this story.
Louisiana had received its share of coverage lately I was told. They tried to find a place for it inside the magazine. Everyone said they were sympathetic. But nothing happened.
So we've been shunted aside again.
Our collective sorrow and tragedy mattered less than a single hunting accident.
I really had hoped that compassion would win out over clever.
Mr. Cheney's friend is thankfully alive. Meanwhile we're still finding bodies in New Orleans.
Here's the cover. I hope you can use it to keep the story of our troubles alive.
Well, that's a pretty sad statement about the state of media today. Shame on you, New Yorker cover people! Jen also adds: "Brokeback Mountain references are soooo 2005."
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Brokeback jokes are soooo 2005!
The first thing I thought when I got my New Yorker in the mail was "what? they couldn't come up with something better than a rip-off of the 80 gajillion brokeback mountain photojob jokes that have been floating around the internet for months?"
I didn't even know that the cover that they shelved was so much better. That just makes it worse.
And the Bush/Cheney as Jack/Ennis thing isn't that fresh either:
http://advertisingwithoutpity.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/two_gay_cowboys.html
What does mardi gras has to do with NY'er? Oh I know, big party for rich white folks. Party on Babylon.
the whole NO is just one big f up.
How is the current cover a nod to "brokeback Mtn"?
Cheney was hunting not herding animals.
I could almost deal with this were it not for the fact that that Bush/Cheney B-back Mtn joke has been making the email rounds for eight weeks now.
Proof once again that you won't get very far with originality, son.
Fear the artists...
"Rev pays": the cover is a parody of the "Brokeback Mountain" poster.
Oh, then it was waaaaaay over my head.
That or my ADHD kicked in while passing the movie pages.
As a magazine art director, the Cheney cover is 100 times better. The color is more vibrant, the image more compelling, etc. The New Orleans cover doesn't do anything for me. Last week's report on New Orleans in the New Yorker was wonderful, however.
This is a lame piece by you. Who cares?
Bush Cheney is the better cover. Judging from your recent photoshop work, I would say that you failed art.
I'll sign on with those who prefer the Cheney/Bush cover, which is a very effective "quick read" on the newsstand. The Mardi Gras cover is elegant but understated; the magazine could run it this week (which actually includes Fat Tuesday) if it wanted to.
I'm also drowining in a flood of Mardi Gras stories. Thanks, Anderson Cooper, for 20 minutes on abandoned pets in New Orleans. But the witty and pungent commentary of The New Yorker did a lot more for my brain.
That is an amazing peice of artwork. So sad not to see it on the magazine cover, but glad to have seen it here. I'm guessing that the artist will be able to makes lots of money selling prints of this if he's got copywrites!
are you people cracked?! they're both ugly as hell!
The New Yorker is culturally irrelevant anyway. People like to lift it up and hold it to their noses, but do they actually read what's on the paper?
My guess is that the New Yorker assumes no, and so they produce their content accordingly. That's why they're the proud home of Malcom Gladwell's 10 Page Pointless Ramble: {Now with Extra Pseudo-Jargon!}
The NO MG cover is a take off on a John Gutman photo from the 20's or 30's. Gutman died about 10 years ago in his early 90's.
The Cheney/Bush cover, in my opinion is way better. The mardi gras cover is too simplistic and message too obvious (and I don't care for the art either). While the Cheney/Bush cover is obviously a Brokeback reference, it speaks to the administration's failings which is the real cause of the mess New Orleans finds itself in now. And artist Ulriksen has a great style.