Episode 120: Noteworthy Magazine Covers
Magazines. They’re still big business, but today’s magazines are a pale imitation of what they once were. And being on a magazine cover meant that you hit the big-time. Sometimes that was amazing, other times not so much.
Today we’re discussing some iconic covers that made statements from the shelves of newsstands and delivered surprises to unsuspecting mailboxes. John Lennon, Demi Moore, Richard Nixon, New York City, Apple and Batman have all made the cut.
So ask your bartender for a round of Boulevardiers and make sure all your subscriptions are up-to-date. Today we’re bringing a tall stack of reading materials with us to the bar.
E X T R A S :
The June 1997 cover artwork for Wired magazine illustrating the imminent doom facing Apple.
(Top to bottom): The original Vanity Fair cover with Demi Moore, parody artwork from Spy magazine, Paramount Pictures (for Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult), Banksy (“Danger Monkey Pregnant”) and Marvel Comics’ She-Hulk
(Top to bottom): Saul Steinberg's The New Yorker cover, "View of the World From 9th Avenue," the poster for Columbia Pictures’ Moscow on the Hudson
(Top to bottom): The original 1981 cover layout for Rolling Stone with Yoko Ono and John Lennon, a Spy magazine parody with Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, the backside (get it?) of Lennon and Ono’s Two Virgins album artwork
George Lois’s layout for the cover story “Nixon’s Last Chance” in Esquire magazine’s May, 1968 issue
Life magazine’s March 11, 1966 issue featuring Adam West as Batman to illustrate their “Mad New World” cover story
Additional Links
Wired
Vanity Fair
The New Yorker
Rolling Stone
Esquire
Life
Honorable mention: Spy
“Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued — by Microsoft” (Wired article)
