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Filed under: Headline Shooter Tagged: art, Barack Obama, Bob Staake, comics, contests, covers, Eustace Tilley, Francoise Mouly, George Booth, George Packer, Otto Soglow, Rea Irvin, theater, Willam Shawn
Time Magazine calls The New Yorker's post-election cover, by Bob Staake, the best magazine cover of the year. "Simply spectacular," they say. Curiously, NBC's Domenico Montanaro points out that Barack Obama appeared on 48 percent of Time's covers in 2008, albeit sometimes in the "skybox," that cute folded-down corner that previews a secondary story in the issue—I didn't know that's what it's called!
Call for entries: As the Irvin-mad Emily noticed the other day, the 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest is under way! Send in your depiction of Eustace Tilley by January 15, 2009. Françoise Mouly will curate a slide show with the top entries.
The Aurora Theater Company of Berkeley, California, is putting on George Packer's Betrayed in January. I've seen it, and it comes recommended. The play is about the failure of the American authorities in Iraq to support those courageous Iraqis who risked their lives by collaborating with the occupying forces. Here's the original article from The New Yorker. Now that Iraq is a bit out of the headlines, I'm curious whether the play feels dated in any way—a perhaps inevitable fate for material as "newsy" as this.
Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter blog reviews Booth, a 1999 book about legendary New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. Hey—we're fans.
The New York Public Library has a fairly random picture of William Shawn, which kind of thing always cheers me up.
Oh, and here's a 2003 article by me about the connections between A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life. I think it's good. Merry Christmas!
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Writing on theater: reviews (for Time Out Chicago; imperfect but workable search results)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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