Source: aevie
World Re-opening…
June 4, 2021 by 16 Comments
Art by Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğl, (from Istanbul, Turkey). Françoise Mouly: “When coronavirus quarantines were announced, more than a year ago, artists began sending in sketches about our new, locked-in reality. One of those sketches, from Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu, who is based in Istanbul, looked far ahead, imagining the thrill and poignancy of a world reopening. Today, the pandemic is far from over, but many countries are finally exhaling, and it seemed apt to publish Ekşioğlu’s image.”
the act of looking out the window
March 30, 2021 by 16 Comments
When trapped indoors, the act of looking out the window can become a simple, nearly sublime pleasure. We talked to the cartoonist Tom Gauld about his latest cover for the magazine…
Do you have any favorite sights outside your window?
It’s nice to see more of my neighbors as they walk along the street—usually, many of them would be at work all day. And, when I take walks, I see a lot more people sitting by their front windows, often working on a laptop. The idea for this cover started when I walked past a building and noticed that there was a figure in almost every one of the windows. I tried to imagine an everyday event that might attract the attention of everyone in a building.
Do you have a dog, and, if you don’t, do you envy those who do?
I don’t have a dog, and really I’m more of a cat person, but I do see the appeal of a dog. It’s nice to have a reason to go out for a walk (or two) every day. I usually walk in the park with my younger daughter before she starts her online-school day, and almost everyone else is out there walking a dog. The dogs always seem very happy.
— Françoise Mouly, excerpts from her interview of Tom Gauld on his magazine cover titled “Captive Audience” in The New Yorker, March 15, 2021
Truth
July 14, 2020 by 23 Comments
Source: Hartley Lin (formerly known by the pseudonym Ethan Rilly) is a cartoonist based in Montreal, Canada. Young Frances, the first collection from his ongoing comic book Pope Hats, won the 2019 Doug Wright Award for Best Book. He has drawn for The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, Taddle Creek and HarperCollins. (via thisisn’thappiness)
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
May 20, 2020 by 27 Comments
T.G.I.F.: It’s been a long week
May 1, 2020 by 12 Comments
In your house for days on end,
Hours, minutes, weeks all blend.
Boredom, hunger, Tiger King.
Food depleted, you need some things.
And though I shouldn’t need to ask,
When you go out, please wear a mask.
Source: covidbookcovers
Saturday Forecast: 55° F / Breezy
March 14, 2020 by 17 Comments
The New Yorker Cover: “Blown Away,” by Tomer Hanuka.
“The cover for this year’s Spring Style Issue is the fourth by Tomer Hanuka, an Israeli artist known for his striking use of color.
Q: We like the gestural quality of the woman’s pose. How does body language factor into making an image like this?
“I start with a gesture, just a line, and build a story around it. There are so many rules about drawing anatomy, and sometimes you need to break all of them to make a pose work. An image like this begins with a realistic sketch of a body, but in the end I want the physicality to disappear. I want the reader to be left only with an idea or a feeling.”
What’s it like to be a human the bird asked
September 15, 2019 by 31 Comments
What’s it like to be a human
the bird asked
I myself don’t know
it’s being held prisoner by your skin
while reaching infinity
being a captive of your scrap of time
while touching eternity
being hopelessly uncertain
and helplessly hopeful
being a needle of frost
and a handful of heat
breathing in the air
and choking wordlessly
it’s being on fire
with a nest made of ashes
eating bread
while filling up on hunger
it’s dying without love
it’s loving through death
That’s funny said the bird
and flew effortlessly up into the air
~ Anna Kamienska, from “Funny”
Notes: Poem via Alive on All Channels. (Thanks Beth). Art by Klára Piknerová (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
T.G.I.F.: It’s been a long week
May 10, 2019 by 22 Comments
Notes: Illustration by Pascal Campion with Quiet World. Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “Notes from Underground” (1864): “I want peace. I’d sell the whole world for a kopeck this minute, just not to be bothered.” (Source: finita–la–com)
Lightly Child, Lightly.
January 17, 2019 by 19 Comments
A poet is someone
Who can pour Light into a spoon,
Then raise it
To nourish
Your beautiful, parched holy mouth.
~ Hafiz, “Your Beautiful, Parched Holy Mouth” in I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy: Renderings of Hafiz (Penguin, 2006)
Notes:
- Poem: Thank you Make Believe Boutique. Illustration: bakanohealthy
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
how easy it can be to find your own quiet place
January 12, 2019 by 23 Comments
Q: Is the image based on something you saw? How did it come to you?
“More than being based on something I saw, I would say it comes from something I experience often. I was trying to capture the feeling of being immersed in a book to the exclusion of everything around you. I think my love for reading comes more from the need to connect with my inner reality than from the desire to escape the external one. Proust described it perfectly as “that fertile miracle of communication that takes effect in solitude.” …
My first time in New York was in 2010, when I spent three months there, during the winter. My most vivid memories are connected to that first stay. I remember big blue skies, ice-cold feet, hot black coffees, fresh bagels, and huge pizza slices.
The gif was animated by the talented Jose Lorenzo. I often collaborate with him—I love the way he brings my images to life. We didn’t want the image to be too frenetic. For me, it was important to maintain that feeling of peace and timelessness that happens when you’re reading. I also wanted to show how easy it can be to find your own quiet place in the city without having to go far out of your way.”
~ Anna Parini, in response a question from Françoise Mouly, on this week’s cover in The New Yorker, which shows a rare moment of calm amid the bustle of a new year. Parini, who has contributed illustrations to the magazine since 2015, grew up in Milan but is now based in Barcelona. Mouly spoke to Parini about New York’s wintry charms and the process of creating an animated cover image.
(Source: Anna Parini’s “A New Leaf”, The New Yorker, January 7, 2019)
It’s been a long day
January 10, 2019 by 32 Comments
Human life is a kind of myopia, everyone walking around, seeing only what’s in front of them, or not even that—passing each other by, embroiled in our little dramas to such an extent that we miss out on everything; making big what is small.
~ Sheila Heti, Motherhood: A Novel (Henry Holt and Co., May 1, 2018)
Notes: Illustration: Owen Gent. Related Posts: It’s been a long day
Lightly Child, Lightly.
January 10, 2019 by 16 Comments
Notes:
- “A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees” by Owen Gent. Illustration based on the beautiful book a Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Kenko. “There was not a sound except for the soft drip of water from a bamboo pipe buried deep in fallen leaves…Moved, I said to myself, ‘One could live like this’”
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Forecast: 94° F. (Feels like…Hot)
August 28, 2018 by 37 Comments
Wiebke Rauers, a freelance illustrator from Berlin working on character designs, children’s books, and magazines. Find her on Facebook here.
The Not New Yorker (Christmas 2017)
December 5, 2017 by 17 Comments
Source: “The Not Yorker” is a collection of declined or late cover submissions to The New Yorker, curated by illustrators who love and admire traditional cover illustration. This site is for celebrating cover art, and great ideas that didn’t make it. Illustrators are encouraged to submit their rejected covers , so that they might have the opportunity to be rejected by this group as well. The site is not officially affiliated with The New Yorker
This declined cover is was created by John Tomac and titled “Christmas 2017”.
Flying over I-40 N. With Cotton.
November 3, 2017 by 32 Comments
- 2:38 a.m. Alarm set for 3:30, Body set to go, Now.
- 2:40 a.m. Check Sleep App: 4 hr. 30 min. Could be worse.
- 3:50 a.m. “Good morning Mr. Kanigan. You’re off early.” No sh*t.
- 4:00 a.m. No car. Check calendar. I’m 30 minutes early. Wow. Nicely done.
- 4:15 a.m. I Shazam R&B tune coming thru hotel pipes. Leela James. Swept away.
- 4:50 a.m. DFW airport doors open. Insomniacs, airport workers and DK stream in.
- 5:50 a.m. Walk concourses. (Yes, Plural.) Fitbit Counter: 4,033.
- 6:05 a.m. Board AA# 1150 to NY LGA.
- 6:25 a.m. “We’ll be cruising at 31,000 ft. Flight time: 3 hours. Expect a smooth flight.”
- 6:37 a.m. Eye lids heavy. Leela on loop crooning thru the earbuds.
- 6:40 a.m. Drifting to Bradbury‘s “country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist.”
I’m flicking thru Netflix and spot him. Ray Liotta (Fields of Dreams / Goodfellas) in a 2016 movie titled Sticky Notes. Papa Bear writes this on a Sticky Note to his daughter:
“Whoever feels it deepest wins.”
I look out the window, and here we are…31,000 ft up and floating on fluffy, mountainous sized cotton balls.
Cotton balls. White. Cotton. Balls.
- New cotton briefs. Stretch fabric. Contoured to snuggle it/them…
- New, cotton socks. Toes wiggle, happy.
- Soft cotton twill Chinos, hugging the legs and thighs.
- A velvety cotton, v-neck t-shirt wraps the chest and back.
- A cotton button down shirt, hundreds of stitches, fitting just so…smooth.
“Whoever feels it deepest wins.”
Feels it deepest.
Wins.
Notes: Image: Perception is reality, Andrey Kasay
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