Government Cheese’s Fake New Yorker Cover
My New Yorker colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly recently noticed a New Yorker magazine shown for a second (maybe a second-and-a-half) in the very first episode of the Apple TV series, “Government Cheese.”
I took a screenshot of the moment the magazine appears, turned the image upside down, and sharpened it a little. It’s a dummy issue! The immediate giveaway is that the cover doesn’t sport the so-called “Rea Irvin font” — close-ish, but no cigar. The images are too blurry to decipher, but it looks like a pastiche of cartoons and perhaps(?) photos. I took out our copy of the Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989 and flipped through the show’s time period, just to make sure there wasn’t something similar to what was shown on the screen. Nada.
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A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Into The Issue Of May 18, 1935
So much to read about in this latest post from A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine.
Cover by Adolf K. Kronengold, who contributed 22 covers to the magazine.
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