Blown Covers: 141 delicious cartoons about Food
This week on Blown Covers the theme was “food”. I sent in 2 submissions, in the second slide show #’s 34 and 40. I was actually pleased with #34, my “sleeping beauty” submission though it was not a finalist or anything. Who doesn’t dream about food?
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What a scrumptious week! We had a difficult time narrowing down the entries, and it wasn’t just because we were both hungry at the time. We got a very healthy batch of art this week - a mix of images of loving, beautifully rendered fresh produce and grotesque, ridiculous fast food. Please take the…
Blown Covers: 50 Cartoons about July 4th
I’m #46 on the slide show this week. A watermelon bomb. For me, that pretty much sums up the holiday.
Some festive entries in here. It also seems that the quality of the submissions is getting much higher. Kinda feels more professional and competitive!
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What explosions in our inbox this week! July 4th seems to have prompted some exceptionally beautiful and thought-through images. As a French woman living in New York City, I thought there would have been more fun poked at old Uncle Sam, but the show of joyful celebration and patriotism was…
63 Wedding Cartoons
This week the theme was “Weddings”. My submission is #58 in the slide show. I thought it would be a different take to feature the wedding photographer, since they are usually the one invisible yet utterly crucial player in the wedding scheme. I also thought it could be taken like it’s the paparazzi shooting a celebrity wedding, as there are so many celebrity destination weddings.
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Thank you to all the artists who submitted! We had an exceptionally difficult time winnowing down our top choices this week, but we had to force ourselves to commit. There are many wonderful images in this slideshow and we hope you’ll take the time to look through it. We look forward to hearing which images you like best and why.
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.
92 Funny Rites of Spring
I got on the New Yorker’s “Blown Covers” site again! # 85 is my sketch under the spring theme.
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Thank you for all the wonderful submissions! This week, they’re all in one slideshow: the winner, 10 runner-ups (scroll over for my comments), then many of the other entries we received. If you submitted this week, please feel free to share your sketch on your own page. I believe artists can learn a lot from looking at each other’s process, so take a look. I would love to hear which ones you liked and why in the comments.
