Favorite New Yorker Covers of 2011
Here's my annual look back at my favorite New Yorker covers of the past year, which each week illustrate seasons, holidays, and topical news events.
Last winter's heavy snow storms.
Broadway's Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark continues to wound its performers.
Jorge Colombo is a popular new New Yorker cover artist. He draws these views of New York on his iPhone with his finger.
This, I believe, was a news mash-up, The Oscars occurring the same week as the Egyptian revolution.
David Hockney also started drawing on his iPhone, and produced these two covers.
Maira Kalman did the cover for Easter.
One of humorist Bruce McCall's five covers. Oversized and multiplexed strollers really have gotten out of hand on NYC's crowded sidewalks. I saw one that nannies use to push around six toddlers at a time.
One of the political covers, on the capture and killing of the Ayatollah.
A funny cartoon set in one of NYC's greenmarkets.
Mayor Bloomberg continues to wage war against fat and salt at New York's many restaurants.
The obligatory summer-at-the-beach cover.
Gays and lesbian couples can now get married in New York, celebrated by a magazine once so homophobic that Christopher Street magazine was founded because openly gay writers and subjects were excluded from The New Yorker's pages.
Two covers about the faltering economy -- except for the 1%.
The "Goodbye to Summer" cover.
The 10th Anniversary of 9-11.
The Post Office goes bankrupt.
Tourists continue to take over Times Square.
Steve Jobs passes.
Wayne Theibaud usually contributes at least one cover a year, once again for Thanksgiving.
A second Thanksgiving cover, this one making a wry comment on the immigration issue.
This was probably my favorite cover, an observation that bookstores (especially Barnes & Noble) are carrying fewer and fewer actual books.
Christmas comes to New York.
OK, this is one of the first covers of 2012. but I thought I'd run it for its topicality, as primaries for Republicans get underway.