The animation is a collaboration with John Kuramoto who works with cartoonists and graphic novelists under the name Phoobis. This week’s cover, Mirror, a collaboration between The New Yorker and the radio program This American Life, tries something similar.” ![]() “The New Yorker is arguably the primary venue for complex contemporary fiction around, so I often wonder why the cover shouldn’t, at least every once in a while, also give it the old college try? In the past, the editors have generously let me test the patience of the magazine’s readership with experiments in narrative elongation: multiple simultaneous covers, foldouts, and connected comic strips within the issue. At the time, she shared a sentiment apparently proliferating among her peers on TikTok and Twitter: “I’m just really glad that the congressmen who voted to let guns multiply in America are now going through what my generation has for pretty much our whole lives.Chris Ware an American cartoonist and illustrator, mostly know for his graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) and Building Stories (2012) was asked to make the cover of this edition of magazine The New Yorker. Some clarity was provided on January 6, 2021, when Clara and I watched the rioters scale the walls of the United States Capitol while senators and representatives huddled in fear. These were unthinkable topics, grayed out in my mind. My wife-again, a teacher herself-and I would offer her an understanding look, but, frankly, I gave shamefully little thought to what they both regularly faced, how lockdowns worked, or how the protocols might solve the basic math problem of automatic weapons plus classrooms. These exercises were ostensibly to rehearse students for the possibility of a real shooting. In the accompanying introduction, one parent tells the reporter Rachel Monroe, “I spent the whole summer contemplating whether I send them back or not.” She adds, “The nightmare is, what if they don’t come back?” I recently spoke to Ware about the image, which he has left intentionally ambiguous it could depict a practice run, or the real thing.ĭid any event directly prompt the new cover image?Īfter the shootings in Newtown, Clara, like many children across America, would come home from school and report that her class had locked down again for a safety drill. Miller captured the images just three months after a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle killed nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. The issue publishes, by unhappy coincidence, the week after a former policeman armed with a knife and gun killed thirty-six at a child-care center in Thailand, and it features a series of photographs of children waiting for the school bus in Uvalde, Texas, by Greg Miller. In his latest, for the October 17, 2022, issue, Ware turns his gaze to the ongoing tragedy of gun violence in schools, which has forced students, teachers, and parents to accept active-shooter drills as a routine part of the school year. He has caught moments that feel bittersweet, humorous, sad, and joyful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years, in numerous covers for this magazine, the artist Chris Ware has drawn inspiration again and again from his experiences raising his daughter, Clara, and from his wife, Marnie, and her job as a teacher.
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