{"id":1845,"date":"2012-06-21T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2012-07-15T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T14:22:54","slug":"new-yorker-cover-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/new-yorker-cover-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker Cover Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fran\u00e7oise Mouly<\/a> is, amongst other things, the art director for the New Yorker. Earlier this year she started a companion blog<\/a> to her book,\u00a0Blown Covers<\/a>, a book of rejected New Yorker covers. It’s taken on a life of its own and is always an interesting read.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, Mouly gives a theme each Monday and anyone can submit their sketches for potential New Yorker covers…<\/p>\n

Artist Gayle Kabaker\u2019s \u201cJune Brides\u201d… was picked out by Mouly from the blog submissions and chosen as the cover of the June 25, 2012 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>. (For those not familiar with the prestige\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0covers carry among illustrators, this is a little like getting asked up on stage to play with\u00a0The Who.)<\/p>\n

– lines and colors<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Gayle<\/p>\n

That’s pretty darn cool. More of Gayle Kabaker’s work can be seen on her portfolio site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\/\/UPDATE\u00a007\/13\/12<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dear Friends and Followers –<\/p>\n

After Monday\u2019s announcement that this blog would wind down at the end of July, the Blowncover\u2019s inbox was flooded with letters of support and encouragement. A clever and talented community of artists and commenters has sprung up around \u00a0this project and I can\u2019t bear to let it go. So. You\u2019ve convinced me! The blog will live on. But we\u2019ll have to make some changes.<\/p>\n

We will be transitioning from weekly contests to monthly contests. I\u2019d love to continue just as we\u2019re doing now, but the pace isn\u2019t sustainable. This week, we got twice as many submissions as usual! (And they\u2019re\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0great – way to make our lives difficult.) \u00a0I\u2019d like to make it so artists can look at each other\u2019s submissions over the course of a month (a public or semi-public flickr gallery perhaps?), vote and comment on them, then Fran\u00e7oise and I will post our favorites here on the tumblr. I\u2019m going to take the weekend to think about the best way to do this (your suggestions are very welcome: blowncovers@gmail.com). I\u2019ll be back on Monday, with a new plan – and later next week, with the results of the cats and dogs contest.<\/p>\n

Thank you for all your encouragement,<\/p>\n

Nadja<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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 Fran\u00e7oise 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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