April 2013
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OPEN CALL FOR FUNNY, INTERESTING IMAGES
toon-books:
This is what gets our blood boiling:
GUNS
THE MELTING OF THE ICE CAPS
ANIMAL FARMING
THE 1 PERCENT
These are the topics most on our mind these days, so if you’re an artist who feels strongly about any of these topics, please send us images. THE MOST ARRESTING will be featured here, in our AGITPROP section, and on our social media.
We look forward to seeing what you come up...
December 2012
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The race is on!
Launching the 6th Annual Eustace Tilley contest. Very much looking to what you come up with. Details on the New Yorker website:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/photocontests/eustace_tilley_2013
edit from nadja: Oy! This is what happens when you share a website - and a log-in to edit said website - with your mother.
I just wanted to say: I’m sorry we’ve been remiss in keeping you updated on the future of the site. As many of you guessed, the amount of time and work it took eventually overwhelmed us. Running this site was so inspiring and exciting. We’re very grateful to...
What happened to blown covers?
The mastermind (isn’t she gorgeous?) is now in Paris. Read the interview with Nadja here—en français dans le texte:
http://etreappart.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/interview-de-nadja-spiegelman/
October 2012
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104 Halloween Cartoons
Thank you to all the artists who submitted their beautiful, spooky funny images. This time, we gave artists an extra week to sketch and it’s clear that many used the time to put in even more work than usual. The submissions this week were stellar. Below are two slideshows, and stay tuned for the runners-up and winners beginning tomorrow. We can’t wait to read which are your favorites and why!
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September 2012
19 posts
Thank You for the Halloween Submissions
Thank you all for your marvelous halloween submissions. The Blown Cover contest entries get stronger every month. Francoise and I will judge them this weekend and winners will be posted beginning Monday. In the meantime…a published Halloween cover by Owen Smith to tide you over:
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This Month's Contest: Halloween
It’s time for the Blowncovers blog to become extremely spooky. I wish we could hang cobwebs in the corners of the site and play a manic laugh whenever you opened the page. Halloween is an extremely visual holiday, and it’s made for some of our favorite covers. Since the holiday falls just two days before our presidential elections this year some jokes just beg to be made. But...
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100 Fall Cartoons
What a pleasure to embrace the brisk weather and shifting seasons by flipping through the yellow, red and orange of this month’s submissions. There are many beautiful images here and, as always, we had a hard time narrowing down winners. So take the plunge into this pile of leaves and tell us in the comments which are your favorites. We’re off to sip hot apple cider, wear slippers,...
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