Now That’s A Cover! With the news of a new Westminster champ this morning (“Penny,” a doberman), I thought it would be fun to see an early New Yorker dog-themed cover. Above is I.G. Haupt‘s 22nd cover for The New Yorker (out of 44). Curiously, this was the first dog-themed New Yorker cover. I just breezed through all of the
Read moreThe Cover: Talk about yer timely cover: you might think that the cover on the left, by I. G. Haupt, is this week’s New Yorker cover, but it’s not. It appeared August 31, 1929*, not too long before “Black Monday”; the cover on the right appears this week on the magazine — “The Spring & Style” Issue. I’m reminded of
Read moreOn this Super Bowl Sunday, thoughts turn to how football has intersected with my favorite magazine’s covers. Closing in on its fourth birthday,The New Yorker had run plenty of sports themed covers (baseball, tennis, horse racing, sculling, hockey…) but not anything football-related until I.G. Haupt‘s cover shown above. This was Mr. Haupt’s third cover for the magazine. He came on
Read moreOne of the Spill‘s favorite New Yorker-centric blogs takes a close look at the issue of August 31, 1929. Consider the blog’s subtitle for a moment: Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker Magazine. If you love The New Yorker, you’ll love watching the magazine’s early development. And of course, there’s all that history. Read it here. Above: the Aug
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