Tomine for the New Yorker
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
I know I’m risking turning this blog into the “New Yorker Cover of the Week” affair, but this Adrian Tomine cover is really too beautiful not to mention. So there.

I know I’m risking turning this blog into the “New Yorker Cover of the Week” affair, but this Adrian Tomine cover is really too beautiful not to mention. So there.
Chris Ware provided the cover for the November 27, 2006 issue of The New Yorker. Or rather, he provided no less than 4 covers, which form a comic when combined.
The New Yorker gracefully made all covers available on their website, and added a fifth page, which, in true Ware fashion, completed the comic by continuously cramming more panels on a single page.
Here’s a comic by Adrian Tomine from the New Yorker, May 2nd, 2005. I remember having this conversation almost verbatim (in Dutch, naturally) with my barber back in my home town, when I was home for summer from University, back in the 80’s.
I was quite addicted to Tomine’s Optic Nerve series at one time, but I got over it, I think. Every time a new issue comes out, I have a relapse, tough…
Here and here are good interviews with Tomine. Read and learn…
Filler time continues with two illustrations by Jacques Loustal for the New Yorker. The drawing above was published in the november 24, 2001 issue, the one below on february 16, 2004.

Seth drew this beautiful portrait of a blues guitarist for the february 3, 2003 issue of the New Yorker.

R. Kikuo Johnson provides the illustration for a New Yorker review of Korean horror film The Host. Click here for more of Johnson’s work.
(thanks, Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat)

Once more I would like to draw your attention to the The New Yorker : main : start Magazine. The current issue sports a cover by Benoit Van Innis, one of those rare cartoonists who can draw humorous pictures without a pun. You smile, you smirk, but you just don’t know why.
I’ve been a fan of Joost Swarte’s artwork for quite a while, and when I met him earlier this year, I was happily pleased to find out he’s as much the gentleman as his artwork suggest.
It’s not been easy to track down his work recently, not where I live anyway, but luckily people are on the lookout for me.
So here’s a picture Swarte made for this week’s issue of the New Yorker. Enjoy !
David Heatley, blogged about yesterday, announces he’s done the cover to this week’s New Yorker. Here it is :

A larger version is available for download from David’s blog, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down.
Congratulations, David !