"Boo!"

The New Yorker magazine's November 5 Halloween cover:

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(Cover: Mark Ulriksen)

Swamp King

The cover of the latest New Yorker magazine, illustration by John Cuneo (click to enlarge):

The multiple, swamp-filling scandals of the corrupt administration of thug Donald "Rump" Trump are churning away with something added seemingly every day. If it's not him or his grifter family, it's one or more of his incompetent, corrupt appointees. Sad!

Cover Of The Week

The New Yorker's cover this week features a scary clown for Halloween:

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"Blowhard"

The New Yorker joins The Economist in vying for Cover of the Week:



("Blowhard" cover by David Plunkert)

Giant Toddler Trump About To Take A Ride

The New Yorker magazine has a cover ready for the inauguration of the Giant Toddler* (see gif version here):



The artist notes:

“Every so often, you hear stories on the news about a toddler who somehow manages to start the family car and drive the vehicle across town, where the law finally apprehends him—and it’s almost always a him—before too much damage has taken place,” Barry Blitt, the artist behind this week’s cover, says. “As to why this would come to mind on the week of our new President’s Inauguration... I have no idea!”

BTW, that looks like it might be a Kortezh the Giant Toddler's "driving."

 *h/t Quinn Cummings.

Picture = 1,000 Words

Presidential reactions to neo-fascist fartbag Donald "Rump" Trump's Presidential ass-pirations. Classic cover art by Barry Blitt.

"Tasteless and Offensive"

The July 21 cover of the New Yorker Magazine shows a cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama fist-bumping in the Oval Office, but what's offensive about the cartoon is the fact that he's dressed as a Muslim, she's dressed as a '60s Black Nationalist with a semiautomatic rifle slung over her shoulder, and they're standing in front of a fireplace burning the American flag with a picture of bin Laden over the mantlepiece. Nice.

Of course, the New Yorker calls the cartoon a satire, and that the article inside the magazine is favorable to the Obamas. But how many people walking past magazine racks and newstands will see the cartoon, never read the article, and form a different opinion? Millions perhaps, and that's the problem. Also, shouldn't the subjects of the satire be the wingnuts who are spreading the false rumors, not the Obamas?

The Obama campaign called the cover "tasteless and offensive." (To their credit, the McSame campaign agreed). "Stupid" would be an additional adjective that we'd choose.