The New Yorker has featured some cracking covers by comics artists over the years, some of which we’ve posted about on here, but when you find Daniel Benneworth-Gray has put up several of Chris Ware’s then it is always worth posting another link, I think! Daniel has a short selection of Clowes’ New Yorker covers that you should just go and enjoy – I really like this recent back-to-school one, especially the one little girl going into the school door with her student chums but looking back towards her already departing parents, busy on cell phones and adult conversation with other parents. It’s a lovely little detail that perfectly captures that moment of first being at school as a kid, suddenly in a very different world, away from your family, in a new situation with new people, excited but apprehensive too, all captured in one little character glancing back over her shoulder. Lovely work. (thanks to Tom at Comics Reporter for the link)
(New Yorker September 17th 2012 cover, art by Chris Ware)
Fri, Sep 21, 2012
Comics and cartoons