The New Yorker staff scribbled up a list of book-inspired perfumes that will have the literate chortling contently. Great Expectations Splash has a hint of moldy old mansion and the Sex and the City Eau de Toilet is “an aged blend of vodka, vermouth, spermicide, and buttercream frosting, bottled in a flask. Slosh it on, ladies.” Suggestions? Read more »
Bob Staake’s latest cover for the New Yorker dunks the M.C. Escher bird-to-fish drawing into oil — a lot more sad than amusing.
For an epic misanthrope whose comics bring out the funny in all sorts of fucked up things, Ivan Brunetti sure made a cuddly New Yorker cover.
No amount of literary pretensions can ever make a plug of the Slav ‘Jersey Shore’ sound non-moronic, unless our preferences of dill, bumper stickers and non-translatable slang are somehow profound cultural revelations. Sorry, New Yorker. You fail. Read more »
“[I]magine this: a jaunty young John, in his pilot uniform, sitting comfortably and chatting with his Vietnamese captors. Two gorgeous gals serve his every wish. He is smoking a cigar and drinking a martini. In the next room other POWs are being intensively interrogated. Ha ha, Republicans?” |Wonkette|
The spinoffs of the now infamous ‘New Yorker’ cover that spawned a huge news cycle of outrage and controversy for depicting the Obamas as extremist terrorist caricatures, has almost topped that of Shepard Fairey’s HOPE poster for Obama despite only being a few days old now. Cartoonists from all sides of the political universe are taking shots at the cover and redrawing it for their own heavy handed satirical purposes. The parodies are numerous and can all be viewed on artist Daryl Cagle’s blog or you can jump for a cartoon collection of our favorites. |E&P|
This creative spirit took journalist Kevin Drums thoughts of the infamously controversial New Yorker cover featuring Obama and wife Michelle as American-hating terrorists, and illustrated them with this remix. Per Drums’ suggestion:
“If artist Barry Blitt had some real cojones, he would have drawn the same cover but shown it as a gigantic word bubble coming out of John McCain’s mouth—implying, you see, that this is how McCain wants the world to view Obama.”
The wishful McCain head and encompassing thought bubble do add a nice element. Here’s another version, but with McCain and Bush.
Image: |Mary Hodder| (Click to enlarge)
So by now, many of you have no doubt heard that liberal-leaning soccer mom magazine The New Yorker has just released a very edgy cartoon cover by Barry Blitt featuring Barack Obama in traditional Muslim garb terrorist fist-jabbing a militant afroed Michelle Obama while the America flag is in flames and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs above the mantel. Very cool, heavy handed stuff! Predictably, everyone’s outraged with both the Obama and McCain camps denouncing the outrageous depictions, while the magazine is defending the extreme caricatures. Editor David Remnick described how it’s pure satire and meant to disarm the half-brained, far right’s Obama-is-a-Muslim propagating spin machines. But with most of the mag’s readers most likely Obama supporters and even with all the media coverage, this is not going to do what it was meant to—reach that deranged 12% of Americans that still believe the Democratic presidential candidate secretly denounces Christ for Allah.
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