Journalist Edward Mullany came over to our Soho loft to watch us judge the weekly contest and pulled some wonderful anecdotes out of the whirlwind we presented him with. Take a peek on the New York Daily News Pageviews Blog
From the RAW archives: Paste-up mechanicals of Francoise’s first (and only?) comic (click to enlarge)
FLASH GIVEAWAY:
We’ve been offering free tickets to this nearly sold-out event tomorrow at the 92Y to our Blown Covers contest winners. Art Spiegelman, Roz Chast, Barry Blitt and Francoise Mouly — all on stage. Sadly, many of our winners don’t live in NYC and couldn’t claim their prize. This is not sad for you! To win two of the remaining free tickets, simply leave a review (of any length/quality/kindness) on the Blown Covers Amazon page and email us a link to it at blowncovers@gmail.com. First come, first serve.
Everywhere Nadja goes in her neighborhood in Brooklyn, she sees Dads out with their kids: pushing their strollers, buying them ice-cream, taking them to the park. Fathers even stole the show in Chris Ware’s recent Mother’s Day cover. How would you depict modern fatherhood? Put on those Father’s Day ties and start sketching! (Full submission guidelines at the bottom of this post)
Here are a few published New Yorker covers for inspiration:
-By Leonard Dove
- By HA (Bob Zoell)
- By Charles Burns
-By William Joyce
To enter each week’s contest, please send sketches on this week’s theme. Use the submissions page or email submissions to blowncovers@gmail.com. I prefer sketches to finished work and good ideas to good drawings. Please send files in as jpegs under 1mb, and label the file with firstname.lastname. The deadline is Thursday at noon (NYC time). The themes on the Blown Covers website closely mirror what I suggest to the New Yorker artists I already work with. This blog and contest are informal and not affiliated with the magazine but I’m always on the lookout for ideas. Please keep submissions confidential in case they are selected for later publication. The winning sketch (according to my own subjective whims) will be posted here on Friday.
“I was walking my dog in the park, thinking about graduation—just that whole notion of a big crowd of people all faced with the same situation, all these graduates going out in the world now, at the same time,” says Mark Ulriksen, the artist behind “Adrift.” “And I was thinking, ‘What other kinds of big crowds do you see getting together all with the same purpose?’ Penguins. And they’re adrift, just like these kids.”
Read more on The New Yorker’s Culture Desk Blog
Behind the scenes atThe New Yorker with art editor 