Out Today: Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward
Mr. Lindell began contributing to The New Yorker in March of this year. His book Blackward (Drawn & quarterly) is out today.
Here’s a related article, published September 25, 2023, in The San Francisco Chronicle, “Cartoonist Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward Is A Testament To Publishing Without Permission”
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Rumbles Over New Yorker Walkers Cover
The latest New Yorker cover, by Barry Blitt, is not up there, brouhaha-wise with the Obama fist bump cover, or even this 1993 cover by Art Spiegelman, but it has drawn more attention, media-wise, than the average New Yorker cover.
Here’s The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise Mouly speaking with Mr. Blitt about the cover, and here are a few articles of interest concerning the cover’s publication:
btw: this is not the first time a walker has appeared on a New Yorker cover.