Jonathan Adams
Vanity Fair Spoofs The New Yorker Cover
Vanity Fair is getting in on the satire action. Taking its cue from Condé Nast neighbor, The New Yorker, the magazine creates a spoof on the infamous Barry Blitt cartoon.
Depicting John McCain with a walker and Cindy McCain with an armful of pill bottles, the Vanity Fair cover tries to draw parallels between its cover and the one satirizing the Obamas. Do you think it accomplishes the same goal? Is it funny? Are you as outraged? Tell us why or why not.
Posted at 9:16 AM, Jul 23, 2008 in Media Analysis | Permalink | View Comments
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That cartoon was NOT illustrated by Art Spiegelman! Spiegelman is an incredible radical author, who, in fact, has been banned from The New Yorker after his cartoons criticized 9/11 handlings. Please correct this to illustrator Barry Blitt. Thank you.
Posted by: brown | July 23, 2008 9:58 PM
My first impression of the Vanity Fair cover is that it's funny and whimsical. Unfortunately, those were not the words that came to mind when I saw the New Yorker cover. Since Barry Blitt went all out to use every disparaging/negative association about the Obamas I would have liked the Vanity Fair cover to be more scathing and play up neo-conservatives distaste for McCain. Couldn't they at least have the McCain's perched atop a pile of Cindy's money?
Posted by: msh | July 25, 2008 5:40 AM