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New Yorker cover by Chris Ware
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 28 October 2009, 14:42 Permalink Comments (12)

For the latest edition of The New Yorker, comic book artist Chris Ware has sketched a Hallowe'en themed cover that shows a brigade of Trick-or-Treaters chaparoned by their parents. In a nice contemporary take on the subject, each mom and dad is lit by the ghostly glow of an iPhone...
Ware's strip, Unmasked, also features in the edition dated 2 November and can be read in its entirety (and at a decent size) over at The New Yorker website.
It's the latest New Yorker commission for the Oak Park, Illinois-based artist who previously created four stunning covers for the magazine's 2006 Thanksgiving edition.
Originally spotted over at MagCulture.

12 Comments
Lovely!
2009-10-28 16:41:19
I love Chris Ware's work. It's just so beautifully simple.
2009-10-28 17:29:12
this is great!
2009-10-28 19:22:53
Ware is on-target. The iPhone glow on the parents' faces (echoing their kids' halloween costumes) is a masterful play on the idea of virtual identities and online/interpersonal "masking" (also explored in the interior storyline).
2009-10-29 02:13:30
Ohhh!
Chris Ware is absolutely brilliant! Both in techniques and razorsharp ideas AND execution!
2009-10-29 10:50:44
I believe that cover is genius! Love the cell phone display lighting.
2009-10-29 14:33:47
Both the message and the work itself are remarkable. I love the work Chris does!
2009-10-29 15:52:56
Shear brilliance of simplicity. Bravo Chris Ware!
2009-10-30 18:18:45
Chris Ware is incapable of creating a dull image. Faultless composition and amazing atmosphere created from such a limited palette.
2009-10-30 22:04:08
Puts me in the mind of Geoff Granfield - another great illustrator. Lovely conceptual piece
2009-10-31 13:20:31
Perfect!
2009-11-03 00:14:29
awesome
2009-11-04 10:30:43
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