Blown Covers

The winner is Joan Reilly’s idea of lions turned into lambs through psychotherapy. The transformation of one animal to another would resonate even to readers who are not thinking about the idiom or the weather. Then, on a second reading, one would have an A-HA moment and make the connection to “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” Part of what makes a good New Yorker cover is asking the reader to step in to complete the loop of a witty puzzle. This is more interesting to me than any image that just illustrates a dictum — especially since I’m looking for images that would appear without words or any other cues. 

Here is a slideshow of the runner-ups for this weeks contest — you can mouse over each image to see the artist’s name and my comments. 

Art by: Teresa Rodriguez, Chee Yang, Andre Slob, Andrea D’Aquino, Daniel Hertzberg, Delton Demarest, Erik T Johnson, Evan Waldinger, Matthias Aregui, John Sperry, Nancy Pierson, Stephen Price, Alex Fine, TSL and Toomuchcoffeeman

I often find I get versions of similar ideas from different artists. Here are three images that all take place in a phone booth. I’ll be posting the winner of the contest soon….hang tight!

Art by: Boyd Burggrabe, Delton Demarest, Stephen Price