This week please be sure to pick-up the recent issue of The New Yorker Magazine ( Jan 7, 2013 ). For two reasons: 1. It’s an insanely great publication, and 2. Our Friend, the Artist, Chris Ware did the cover art and his artwork, as always, is totally amazing! The “message” of the cover was inspired by the recent Newtown Shooting Tragedy. Plus, it also responds to a previous cover that he did that had a “Back To School” theme and now, the recent event changed his feeling on that. OK, am I making sense here? Sorry, actually Chris Ware wrote a very excellent article explaining everything and how he came about the idea for the new cover and it’s over at the New Yorker website ( link down below).

You can read Chris Ware’s article by visiting this link, THE NEW YORKER.

Oh yeah, here’s an image of his previous cover we mentioned:

In the most recent issue of Publisher’s Weekly Magazine they do a cover story about the “Best Books of 2012″ and, because Pantheon Book’s “Building Stories” Graphic Novel made the list, they chose Chris Ware to illustrate the cover! Wait, there’s more!! One important thing to notice about this magazine cover is that they have a brand-new logo and this is the very 1st time in their publishing history to feature a fresh one… that’s so cool!!

I hope they keep this new one, I completely love it! Down below is an example of the one they have had for a long time. Yeah, it’s iconic, but this new one is so modern & cool. Please keep it PW!!!

Check this out! Here’s the front page of the Dagens Nyheter Newspaper Culture section as it appeared on September 22nd. The cover story is about Alfred A. Knopf Book Designer, Chip Kidd, with the headline, "In The Mind of a Cover Boy". In the interview ( by Pontus Dahlman, not available online ) Chip Kidd states, concerning e-books, "And when it comes to the experience of reading, there will always be a market for paper books. I myself am a print person. A printing ink person." This is really great foreign publicity ( and we love that ) but the really fun part is that they used Book Cover photos from our GALLERY PAGE to illustrate the story… Awesome!