The power of the image
Barry Blitt is really hitting it out of the park, isn’t he? When you get Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to mimic your drawing in a year of intense political scrutiny, you have created an iconic image.
Related: This week’s New Yorker cover (above) is an homage to Saul Steinberg (below.)
Never dispute the power of the image to evoke and adapt.
10/1/08 at 1:57 pm
Nice covers.
They all work in my opinion.
10/1/08 at 2:18 pm
I’ve got the EW cover at home, and what is amazing his how Colbert absolutely nails the Michelle Obama from the NYer. For all the talk of Jim Carrey’s “rubbery features,” I think Colbert matches him.
Or it could be Photoshopped.
10/1/08 at 3:19 pm
The Nation has a clever play on the New Yorker cover: http://www.thenation.com/images/_img/20080929/toc.jpg