# Art Spiegelman is a genius

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 20, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-spiegelman-is-a-genius/82906 "2001-09-20T23:52:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-spiegelman-is-a-genius/82906/1 "2001-09-20T23:52:47Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-spiegelman-is-a-genius/82906/2 "2001-09-21T02:50:59Z")

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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.