Barry Blitt
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Covering Barack: The New Yorker Vets the President-Elect - Posted November 30, 2008
Barry Blitt, the cartoonist responsible for the New Yorker's controversial terrorist fist-jabbing cover, among others, returns this week to "vet" Barack Obama. Of course this time around "Vetting" refers to the all important decision of picking a "first" puppy thus far we know they want a mutt, but that... [FishBowlNY]
Barbara Kruger's Spitzer Take Is Cover of the Year - Posted October 6, 2008
Thanks to sister blog FishbowlNY's champion Twittering from the American Magazine Conference in San Francisco, we know that New York's Barbara Kruger-annotated photo of Eliot Spitzer has bested Todd Eberle's shot of Marc Jacobs as Andy Warhol (Interview) and cartoonist Barry Blitt's illustration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Senator Larry Craig (The... [UnBeige]
Barry Blitt's New Yorker Cover Tests World's Satire Detection Skills - Posted July 14, 2008
It's entitled "The Politics of Fear" and features a turbaned, robe-clad Barack Obama in an Oval Office fist bump with his wife, Michelle, who has swapped her usual sheath dress and pumps for camo fatigues and combat boots, accessorized not with gumball pearls but an AK-47 and a swath of bullets.... [UnBeige]
Barry Blitt's New Yorker Cover Tests World's Satire Detection Skills - Posted July 14, 2008
It's entitled "The Politics of Fear" and features a turbaned, robe-clad Barack Obama in an Oval Office fist bump with his wife, Michelle, who has swapped her usual sheath dress and pumps for camo fatigues and combat boots, accessorized not with gumball pearls but an AK-47 and a swath of bullets.... [UnBeige]
Barry Blitt: A Modest Retrospective - Posted July 14, 2008
So yeah, this week's New Yorker cover. Everyone is shocked! shocked! Or at least everyone who works in a Presidential campaign. Obama (who recently approved Bush's Constitutionally questionable warrantless wiretapping bill) thinks it's "tasteless and offensive." The McCain camp concurs. Totally understandable, since as we all... [FishBowlNY]
Barry Blitt: A Modest Retrospective - Posted July 14, 2008
So yeah, this week's New Yorker cover. Everyone is shocked! shocked! Or at least everyone who works in a Presidential campaign. Obama (who recently approved Bush's Constitutionally questionable warrantless wiretapping bill) thinks it's "tasteless and offensive." The McCain camp concurs. Totally understandable, since as we all... [FishBowlNY]
The New Yorker is Defending Political Humor?! Wow Are We In Trouble... - Posted July 14, 2008
We just have to chime in on this New Yorker cover controversy. Rachel Sklar at Huffington Post really started this with her outrage about this week's cover depicting Michelle and Barack Obama as Muslim terrorists - burning the flag under a portrait of Osama Bin Laden in the Oval Office.... [FishBowlLA]
The New Yorker is Defending Political Humor?! Wow Are We In Trouble... - Posted July 14, 2008
We just have to chime in on this New Yorker cover controversy. Rachel Sklar at Huffington Post really started this with her outrage about this week's cover depicting Michelle and Barack Obama as Muslim terrorists - burning the flag under a portrait of Osama Bin Laden in the Oval Office.... [FishBowlLA]





