Adrian Tomine did this week’s New Yorker Cover. Just in the past few months, Seth and Adrian Tomine. The only complaint I can possibly come up with is that they inexplicably don’t offer these ‘cartoonist’ covers through their reproduction site. The title of the illustration is “Missed Connections.”
Challenge: Is the approximated cover design of the book being read by the two figures in this illustration based on any real book? Close-up below.
Working at a library, it does look familiar. It looks like Robert James Waller “Bridges of Madison County.” It’s probably something else though.
Here’s an Amazon close-up:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/044651652X/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-4599713-4124140#reader-link
I was wondering which book it was too. The Tipping Point popped into my mind, but that’s not quite it.
why dont you ask your metafilter buds? they might have more ideas.
This is random, but maybe the Spiral Staircase, by Karen Armstrong?
not sure which book that is, but i noticed the tomine cover immediately upon picking up that issue because that is clearly based on the craigslist ‘missed connections’ section, that most everyone prob knows about; craigslist having originated in san francisco. and that cover also obviously takes place on the SF muni trains (i’m thinking the girl’s on the J-Church line, since girls are always getting called out on the J-Church). tomine lives in berkeley. i just wanted to represent for the bay area.
I just checked, and the cover is available at the cartoonbank.
I am looking for an Artist’s original (or similar) of the cartoon cover from what I believe was the New Year’s Cover of the New Yoryer, by Adrian Tomine. The scene is an airport waiting lounge – all flights canceled; there are seven characters shown – a multi-cultural scene – all reading! It was awesome – I would love to own the original or a copy.
Thanks,
Fred Kleisner
robin, that’s pretty clearly a NYC subway line from one of the BMT lines. Possibly the Q or the R. Unless Kawasaki Rail Car makes trains for both of them with the exact same design. It’s not SF Magazine.
It’s been a long time, but I’ll nominate Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down as the cover of the book the two passengers are reading.
