Art Spiegelman is a genius

I received this week’s issue of the New Yorker, the first since WTC.

The cover is perfect – pure black. Art Spiegelman (their art director and author of Maus – which, if you haven’t read, you should immediately log off and buy a copy) is a master of artistic metaphor, and the cover is a classic – simple, yet poignantly direct.

Also of note in the issue: except for one George Booth drawing, there are no cartoons. Nor are there any of their humorous fillers.

Squint at it, RC…you’ll see the faint outlines of where the WTC used to be. Also, the radio antenna cuts through the lettering at the top.

I agree that the lack of cartoons is brilliant…it wasn’t till the second reading that I noticed. And the Booth drawing is classic.