Blown Covers: 65 Father's Day Cartoons
This week the theme was Father’s day, my submissions are numbers 60 and 61 in the slideshow. blowncovers:
We “aww”-ed and “ooh”-ed and laughed a lot this week. The overwhelming majority of our artists painted a tender, engaged portrait of fatherhood - a far cry from the cold authoritarians we would have seen just a few years ago. Mixed in were a number of sperm bank images — so I guess we can…
72 Cartoons About Gay Marriage
I really appreciate this contest, it’s fascinating to see so many submissions and to read the feedback from the NYer’S editor.
This week my submission is # 69 in the slide show. You should check out the winner and runners up too. They’re posted separately. An interesting topic for sure, this week.
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What a week! We had quite a gay old time going through all these submissions and we hope you will as well. Thank you to everyone who sent in images. We look forward to hearing which ones you like and why in the comments below.
How excited I am! I am a runner up again in the Blown Cover’s weekly contest. The theme this week was “Graduation”. They put my submission side by side with another of similar theme. I just love to see all the different ideas illustrators have on one subject.
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Graduation Contest: Runners-up #4
By Sarah Romano Diehl (left) and Tim Foley (right)
When we put these two images side by side, we got into an interesting discussion about the direction in which this particular narrative should be told. Should you end with the student who falls or begin there? We think each works in its own way. What’s charming in both of these pictures are the sequential emotions shown on the different students’ faces. From passive, to nervous, to elated, to doomed - each character tells us one piece of a larger story.
Blown Covers: 144 cartoons about Books
Mine’s # 15 on the second slide show. Again, this week I had such little time because I just moved to a new place- but I had wanted to spend so much more time. This is my favorite topic! I really enjoy all of the takes on this subject. blowncovers:
Wow! We had so many submissions we had to break them into two slideshows to share them all with you. Half of you took a classic New Yorker cover approach and sent in cozy pictures of people lost in stories while the other half took the opportunity to make a sharp commentary on the state of the…
69 Cartoons on the Economic Divide
# 62 this week. It was a quick one- I have a crazy busy week this week. I’m hoping next week to spend some more time on my submission.blowncovers:
Thank you to everyone who submitted this week! This topic was more narrow than others, and it was fascinating to see so many artists find a way to transform the concept of our nation’s economic divide into a cutting visual. As always, we would love to hear your thoughts on which ones you liked most and why.
87 Celebrations of Motherhood
Woohoo! I am a runner-up this week! #11. I am so happy. Also, they included my 2nd submission which is # 81.
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Thank you to everyone who submitted this week! It was wonderful to see so many new names in the mix and Mother’s Day was an especially fun topic for this mother-daughter team to flip through. Here are the 12 runners-up with Francoise’s editorial notes followed by the full roster of submissions we received. As always, we encourage you to look at and learn from each other and we’d love to hear which ones you liked and why.
Here’s another for my “Obstacles” series. It’s called: With A Smile
77 Love Stories in the Big City
Mine is # 61 blowncovers:
Thank you to everyone who sent in sketches this week. Nadja and I did a lot of “aww”ing and “ooo”ing. Here are the ten runner-ups with my notes followed by the whole shebang of images we got in. I’ll post the winner in an hour or two. As always, I’m very interested to hear which ones you liked and why…let us know in the comments.
