Blown Covers

Food is tied to all our primal senses - comfort, happiness, passion. We live in a culture constantly saturated with photographs of food, discussions of food, videos of food. So what about drawings of food? The New Yorker runs a special Food Issue in the Fall, but it’s a topic that can run on the cover anytime. Whether it’s an update on the classic still life New Yorker covers of the past or cutting cultural commentary, we can’t wait to see what you come up with! 

- By Gardner Rea

-By Roz Chast

- By Adrian Tomine

-By Wayne Thiebaud

- By Daniel Clowes

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.