New Yorker Cover Contest
Françoise Mouly is, amongst other things, the art director for the New Yorker. Earlier this year she started a companion blog to her book, Blown Covers, a book of rejected New Yorker covers. It’s taken on a life of its own and is always an interesting read.
Anyhow, Mouly gives a theme each Monday and anyone can submit their sketches for potential New Yorker covers…
Artist Gayle Kabaker’s “June Brides”… was picked out by Mouly from the blog submissions and chosen as the cover of the June 25, 2012 issue of The New Yorker. (For those not familiar with the prestige New Yorker covers carry among illustrators, this is a little like getting asked up on stage to play with The Who.)
That’s pretty darn cool. More of Gayle Kabaker’s work can be seen on her portfolio site.
On the subject of New York, I’ll be there for the next few days on a vacation so no blog posts for a bit. Instead I’ll be wandering around looking at art, trying out new restaurants & bars, and revisiting some old favourites.
//UPDATE 07/13/12
Dear Friends and Followers –
After Monday’s announcement that this blog would wind down at the end of July, the Blowncover’s inbox was flooded with letters of support and encouragement. A clever and talented community of artists and commenters has sprung up around this project and I can’t bear to let it go. So. You’ve convinced me! The blog will live on. But we’ll have to make some changes.
We will be transitioning from weekly contests to monthly contests. I’d love to continue just as we’re doing now, but the pace isn’t sustainable. This week, we got twice as many submissions as usual! (And they’re all great – way to make our lives difficult.) I’d like to make it so artists can look at each other’s submissions over the course of a month (a public or semi-public flickr gallery perhaps?), vote and comment on them, then Françoise and I will post our favorites here on the tumblr. I’m going to take the weekend to think about the best way to do this (your suggestions are very welcome: blowncovers@gmail.com). I’ll be back on Monday, with a new plan – and later next week, with the results of the cats and dogs contest.
Thank you for all your encouragement,
Nadja
That’s good news! So often you see side projects balloon so much that they need to be abandoned but I’m glad to hear that Françoise Mouly & Nadja Spiegelman are just rethinking the project rather than closing up shop. I’m sure they have lots of other stuff to do, but I do enjoy the blog.
