Sherry Chandler » The NYer Cover that Wasn’t
The NYer Cover that Wasn’t
Thanks to BagNews for linking to this story of a New Yorker cover bumped. Artist William Joyce explains:
I was asked some months back to do a New Yorker cover depicting some aspect of how New Orleans was dealing with Mardi Gras in the post Katrina world.
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Coming up with a concept that tempered my rage with some hope was not easy, but I got inspiration from an old photograph of Mardi Gras in the ’30’s by J. Guttman, called the” The Game”. It’s a wonderful, eerie image of New Orleans and its curious magic.
The editors were very pleased with the results. The proof looked great. Some friends cried when I showed it to them.
The image did what I’d hoped. It made people from here sad and proud at the same time.
I was hoping it would, I don’t know, somehow help. Help call attention to our plight. Help people understand us.
Then Dick Cheney shot his friend instead of a bird.
Joyce’s cover “Katrinarita Gras” was bumped in favor of a Brokeback Mountain parody with Bush and Cheney. To see this forgotten cover, follow this link or this one.
I think this story may be typical of the sort of Attention Deficit Disorder we’ve developed about New Orleans — and all of the Gulf Coast.
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2 Comments
1. MW replies at 1st March 2006, 8:46 pm :
People do seem to be rather eager to shove New Orleans under the rug these days. While I’ve enjoyed making fun of Cheney myself, it’s really a shame to see that, no matter what they’ve done, rich white men still take priority over the rest of us.
2. sherry replies at 2nd March 2006, 6:36 am :
Yep. The NYer went for the cheap shot. They were followers when they could have been leaders.
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